House lawmakers champion early childhood funding

10-27-2010

Blog by Alyson Klein/Education Week

Time might be running out for advocates of early childhood programs to see some sort of new investment in a fund to help states improve their programs, a priority for the Democratic administration and members of both parties in the Democratic-For-Now Congress. A group of House lawmakers, including both Democrats and Republicans, has sent a letter to Rep. David Obey, the chairman of the House Appropriations panel that oversees K-12 spending, and Rep. Todd Tiahart of Kansas, the top Republican, asking them to pretty please support a $300 million investment in early childhood programs already approved by Senate lawmakers. The Senate Appropriations Committee passed a bill last summer that would provide the money for a new Early Learning Challenge Fund. It's unclear if the House version includes the language because the House subcommittee that oversees education spending is keeping its bill, also approved over the summer, under lock and key for some still-strangely undisclosed reason. (more…)

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