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Published: March 18, 2009
Federal stimulus funds will get to Oklahoma schools soon
BY DAWN MARKS
Schools could have part of their share of the federal economic stimulus package soon.

"We will have 50 percent of that money available to schools, we are told, by the end of March,” the state schools superintendent, Sandy Garrett , said Tuesday.

The state Education Department is set to receive an estimated $287 million for special education and Title I, which is designed to improve the achievement of d...

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