FE Due Date Update

Friday Feb 27th- Contextual Factors for Edgington

Thursday March 5th- Project Learning Tree (Info to come)

Friday March 6th-FE Seminar (Info to come)

Monday March 9th-Friday March 13th SPRING BREAK!

Wednesday March 18th-Friday March 20th Class on SAM campus

TMSA Conference

The TMSA Conference is coming up soon! The dates are March 5-7. We probabaly won't be able to go to the Thursday or Friday events because we have Project Learning Tree on Thrusday March 5th and Field Experience Seminar on Friday March 6th. The conference starts at 7 am on Saturday with Registration.

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Obama plan would create 286,000 jobs in Texas

Includes tax credits, unemployment help, local government aid

The proposed federal economic stimulus package has ballooned to more than $900 billion as it is being debated in the U.S. Senate this week. The U.S. House last week passed its version of a stimulus bill that carried an $819 billion price tag.

The stimulus plan being touted by President Barack Obama has a goal of creating 3-4 million jobs nationwide over the next two years, nearly 286,000 of which would be in Texas. This week, the president said the plan will deliver "immediate, tangible impacts," and outlined the impact his plan would have on Texas.

In addition to creating nearly 286,000 jobs in Texas, the White House reports that the plan would:

• Provide a work pay tax cut of up to $1,000 for more than 8.1 million Texas workers and their families.
• Provide eligibility for 346,000 Texas families in the new American Opportunity Tax Credit to help make college affordable by creating a new $2,500 partially refundable tax credit for four years of college for some 346,000 Texas families.
• Provide an additional $100 per month in unemployment benefits to 677,000 Texans who have lost their jobs during the current recession and extend unemployment benefits for an additional 125,000 Texans who have been laid off from their jobs.
• Provide adequate funding for the modernization to 21st century classrooms, laboratories and libraries in nearly 1,000 Texas public schools.
• Provide funding for Texas and the remainder of the states for the largest investment increase in the country's roads, bridges and mass transit systems since the creation of the national highway system in the 1950s.

Obama has urged quick passage of the act so that more American businesses do not close and more Americans do not lose their jobs.

Source: eNewsletter: Texas Government Insider

Class Feb. 5th~

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DR. LAPRAIRIE~~~~

By using the remote desktop connection, we are able to get onto sites such as Diigo and web 2.0.

Dont forget to join Diigo, create a profile, join the class group and share 4 bookmarks!!

Kassie-Mashups are not mashed potatoes!! :)

More Upcoming Events/ Due Dates

Just a friendly reminder for those that aren't on facebook, that we have some upcoming due dates.

Wed Feb 4th or Fri Feb 6th The Middle School Me Paper for Dr. Edgington.

• 3+ pages
• 12 pt font
• double spaced

Fri Feb 6th Test #1 for Edgington

• Ch 1-4 on development (see comment)

Thursday Feb 12th Organizational Database Due

• Diigo
• **Don't forget to post your competency on Blackboard**