Advocates push back against proposed education cuts

02-23-2011

Blog by Alyson Klein/Education Week

Congress is technically on a break this week (called "recess"), but education advocates are not. They are organizing call-in campaigns and getting information out to their members to protest the more than $5 billion in education cuts passed by the U.S. House of Representatives over the weekend as part of a measure that would fund the government until Sept. 30. The House would seem to be on a collision course with the U.S. Senate, which is controlled by Democrats and has not taken up the bill yet. The House measure is for fiscal year 2011, which technically started back on Oct. 1. Right now, the government has been operating under a series of extension measures funding all programs at fiscal year 2010 levels. The latest of those expires on March 4. Lawmakers have, essentially, three options between now and then: (more...)

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