Secretaries Sebelius and Duncan announced a national coalition to enroll five million children in Medicaid and CHIP within five years.

Alabama, Iowa, Maine, Massachusetts, Nebraska, and Tennessee are among the states that will receive funding to support education jobs.

Read Secretary Duncan's remarks to state leaders about Race to the Top Assessment winners and the next generation of assessments.

Secretary Duncan commended California for being the first state to submit an application under the Education Jobs Fund.

Secretary Duncan and other Obama administration officials announced a $1.8 billion agreement to help renovate and rebuild schools in New Orleans.

Secretary Duncan is taking a bus tour to visit schools, honor and listen to teachers, meet with parents and students, and highlight success. See video, photos, and stories in the blog.

Secretary Duncan discussed his Back to School Tour and the Obama Administration's education agenda, and he thanked America's teachers -- "our unsung heroes" -- in Little Rock, AR.

ED grants will help 98 school districts strengthen their emergency response plans.

Charter school grants to state agencies in AR, CA, CO, DC, GA, IN, MI, MO, NH, RI, SC, and TX will help increase public school options.

New York and California are among the states that will receive additional Recovery Act funds to support jobs and drive education reforms.

Read the analysis that helped inform ED's proposed regulation that provides a standard for occupational and for-profit postsecondary programs to demonstrate that they prepare students for gainful employment.

Mississippi and Idaho are among the states receiving funding under the School Improvement Grants program to turn around persistently lowest achieving schools.

Applications and guidance are now available for the Education Jobs Fund, which makes $10 billion available to states to support an estimated 160,000 education jobs nationwide.

Secretary Duncan discussed myths about bullying at the Department's first Bullying Prevention Summit.

Congress passed and the President signed into law a bill that provides $10 billion to support an estimated 160,000 education jobs nationwide.

Secretary Duncan announced that an additional $1.072 billion is now available for Texas under the Recovery Act.

"Education is the economic issue of our time," President Obama said in a speech about higher education and the economy at the University of Texas at Austin.

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124 school districts will receive grants to improve the quality of teaching American history in our nation's schools.

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