House floats plan to keep government running, scrap K-12 programs

02-28-2011

Blog by Alyson Klein/Education Week

Again, good and bad news for fans of education spending. The good news: The House Appropriations Committee has introduced a bill to keep the government afloat for the next two weeks. If the measure is approved by the U.S. Senate and signed by President Barack Obama, it would temporarily avert a shutdown, and give lawmakers a chance to continue negotiations on a bill to finance the government for the rest of fiscal year 2011, which ends on Sept. 30. If you recall, the GOP-controlled House has already approved another bill that would fund the government until Sept. 30, but slice more than $61 billion in discretionary spending for fiscal 2011, including more than $5 billion from the U.S. Department of Education. Leaders in the Senate, which is controlled by Democrats, haven't been too thrilled with the cuts. Under the latest House proposal, just about every program would be funded at fiscal year 2010 levels until March 18, with some notable exceptions, totaling about $4 billion. The bad news: Some of those notable exceptions include education programs. The plan would scrap at least four of them and make other K-12 cuts. (more...)

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