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House passes another temporary freeze for K-12

  • 03-16-2011
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Blog by Alyson Klein/Education Week

The budget battle that never seems to end continued today, with the U.S. House of Representatives passing a bill, by a vote of 271 to 158, that would fund federal government, including most K-12 programs, at fiscal year 2010 levels for another three weeks while Congress tries to pass a long-term funding measure. The U.S. Senate is expected to approve the measure this week. This spending bill expires April 8 and is for fiscal year 2011, which technically started back on Oct. 1. The government has been operating under a series of stopgap measures since then. This would be the sixth extension (!) and lawmakers are promising to make it the last. As in, "We either come up with an agreement that will work for the rest of the fiscal year, or we shut down the government." (more...)

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