Education budget, Race to Top, i3 extension still up in the air

11-22-2010

Blog by Alyson Klein/Education Week

Are you waiting to find out whether Congress signs on for "Race to the Top: The Sequel" and an extension of the Investing in Innovation Fund? And whether the lame ducks will take advantage of their status to make a new federal investment in early learning? Well, it looks like the Democratic-For-Now Congress is still sorting out its plans. As we've mentioned before, Congress has a couple of options to deal with the still-unfinished budget for fiscal year 2011, which actually started back on Oct. 1. Right now, programs in the U.S. Department of Education (and pretty much the entire rest of the federal government) are getting funded through a Continuing Resolution, or CR, in Beltway-speak. The CR basically keeps everything at fiscal year 2010 levels, until lawmakers get their act together to pass a new spending plan. Given the turmoil created by the election, the lame-duck Congress could pass a much longer, nine-month CR, essentially extending everything at fiscal 2010 levels until next October 2011. And apparently that's what the Obama administration wants. It's unclear, though, what that will mean for priority education programs, including Race to the Top and i3. (more…)

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