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I have been reading through the The American Reinvestment and Recovery Plan, some interesting points relating to education, I have outlined the main points below.

• An historic investment to school modernization, sufficient to renovate and modernizing 10,000 schools. This historic investment in upgrading the nation's public schools will improve learning environments for about 5 million students.
• Increasing college affordability for 7 million students by funding the shortfall in Pell Grants and increasing the maximum award level by $500.
• Providing a new higher education tax cut to nearly 4 million students. The plan will create a new $2,500 American Opportunity Tax Credit that is partially refundable. As a result, the nearly one-fifth of high school seniors who receive no tax credit under the current system will receive a tax cut to make college affordable for the first time.
• Tripling the number of undergraduate and graduate fellowships in science, to help spur the next generation of home grown scientific innovation.
• Expanding the number of children and families receiving quality preschool services. The plan will double the Early Head Start program, which will not only provide an additional 350,000 children access to quality pre-k services, but will create at least 15,000 new teaching and teaching assistant jobs, as well as new supervisory and support positions.
• Preventing teacher layoffs and education cuts in every state, maintaining key reforms, and ensuring all schools have advanced technology for the 21st century economy.

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