e/National Diffusion Network

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has gloss	eng: The National Diffusion Network (1974-1995) was the first federally-sponsored effort to identify and spread to the nation's schools innovative education programs. The program was created administratively by the then-Office of Education in the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare as an effort to make use of the best of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title III education innovations. The NDN operated successfully, at a Congressionally-approved appropriations level varying between $8-million and $14-million per year, for 20 years. It, like several other small programs then administered by the U.S. Department of Education was eliminated by having its funding stopped by the 105th Congress, under the implementation of a cost-cutting initiative sponsored by new Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, called the Contract with America.
lexicalization	eng: National Diffusion Network
instance of	c/Educational programs