Tag: Ready to Learn
Wednesday roundup: CPB, Ready to Learn provide grants; WKYU oversight shifts
Plus, a voice in support of college radio.Obama requests level CPB funding but would slash rural grants, consolidate Ready to Learn
President Obama has maintained level CPB funding in his fiscal 2015 federal budget request, but recommends eliminating the Rural Digital program and ...This Capitol Hill Day, pubmedia “not in the crosshairs”
With pubcasting no longer a political football, station reps meeting with lawmakers started off on better footing this year.Ready to Compete Act introduced in House to reauthorize Ready to Learn
Rep. John Yarmuth, D-Ky., today introduced his Ready to Compete Act to the U.S. House of Representatives.CPB expands Ready to Learn with additional $110K to four projects
CPB announced today it will grant a total of $110,000 to four licensees for them to expand local outreach related to pubTV's ...Ready to Learn builds on digital-learning push with new station grants
The Ready to Learn program backing educational media and outreach for children ages 2 to 8 is making digital learning through community ...Obama would maintain CPB funding, eliminate rural digital grants in 2014 budget proposal
President Obama released his fiscal 2014 federal budget proposal April 10, and recommended $445 million in two-year advance funding for CPB. This ...New talking point on Capitol Hill: PubTV’s role in education
Public television’s strongest case for preserving tax-based support for stations and CPB centers on informing political leaders about the full range of ...Raising Readers initiative: Ready to Learn goes for depth instead of breadth
In 20 cities across the country, stations are organizing Super Why! reading camps, hosting book-centric sporting events and concerts and handing out Super Why! and WordWorld DVDs ...Public TV lobbies and bids to keep grants for kids’ television
Public TV has to move on two fronts to protect Ready to Learn, the Department of Education grant program that supports several ...Barksdale: Make literacy your mission
Corporate leader and philanthropist James Barksdale, a co-chair of the PBS-appointed Digital Future Initiative, previewed his thinking in a Current commentary seven months before ...Buster to visit gay moms on some public TV channels
At least five public TV stations have pledged to air a controversial episode of Postcards from Buster, dropped last week by PBS, that features ...Secretary of Education objects to Postcards from Buster ‘two moms’ episode, 2005
Margaret Spellings, secretary of education in George W. Bush’s administration, complained to PBS in 2005 about an episode of the animated Postcards from ...Goal for Ready to Learn: engage kids and parents
On July 11, PBS begins beaming its long-anticipated Ready to Learn service to 11 pilot stations, embarking on what planners acknowledge will ...
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