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Race to the Top at stake in lame duck session
- 11-09-2010
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Blog by Alyson Klein/Education Week
Lawmakers will be waddling back to D.C. next week for a lame duck session. They still have to finish the fiscal 2011 appropriations bill that funds the Department of Education.
So the big question for a lot of folks in the eduworld is ... what happens to Race to the Top? The administration asked for $1.35 billion to continue the program for an additional year, and Congress is poised to provide some of that (there's $800 million in the House version of the bill, and $675 million in the Senate). Money is tight, but a lot of folks argue that money is likely to stay in the bills if they are presidential priorities. Still, I can see why the administration wanted Congress to put money into a recent stop-gap measure to fund Race to the Top and i3. (more…)
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