Rhode Island
Rhode Island 
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November 4, 2011
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September 8, 2010U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan today announced that Indiana will receive $207 million, Minnesota will receive $166.7 million, Oklahoma will receive $119 million, and Rhode Island will receive $33 million to support education jobs.
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July 2, 2010
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan today announced that Rhode Island will receive $12.5 million to turn around its persistently lowest achieving schools through the School Improvement Grants (SIG) program. These funds are part of the $3.5 billion that will be made available to states this spring from money set aside in the 2009 budget and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
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May 17, 2010
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan today issued the following statement on the Central Falls agreement.
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May 13, 2010
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan today announced that an additional $44,521,007 is now available for Rhode Island under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009. To date, Rhode Island has received $311,675,732 through the Recovery Act. The state recently reported that recovery dollars have been used to provide funding for nearly 200 education jobs from Oct. 1 to Dec.
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May 19, 2009
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan today announced that $111 million is now available for Rhode Island under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009. This funding will lay the foundation for a generation of education reform and help save hundreds of thousands of teaching jobs at risk of state and local budget cuts.