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Arne Duncan defends education funding, policies to Senate committee
- 07-28-2011
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By Joy Resmovits/Huffington Post
A Wednesday hearing on 2012 education spending turned into a skeptical grilling of the Department of Education's wide-ranging and sometimes controversial policies. U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan faced many questions from members of the Senate Appropriations subcommittee on education, where concerns about spending were heightened by the prolonged negotiations over the debt ceiling. Senators focused on the cost and benefits of Pell Grants, Duncan's emphasis on funding certain competitions, education in high-demand STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) fields and No Child Left Behind. Duncan defended the Education Department's request for a 13.3 percent budget increase over 2011, which would bring the department's spending one fifth higher than 2010 levels. (more...)
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