Senate defeats pair of spending measures

03-10-2011

By Alyson Klein/Education Week

The U.S. Senate has just defeated a pair of federal budget bills that would have taken education spending in two very different directions, sending Congress back to the drawing board to figure out a spending plan for the rest of the current fiscal year. Senate lawmakers, voting 44-56, rejected a House-passed bill that would have cut more than $5 billion from the U.S. Department of Education, plus $1 billion from Head Start, which is administered by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. But lawmakers also voted down a Senate Democrats' bill that would have provided modest increases for Title I, extended Race to the Top, and brought recently scrapped reading programs, including Striving Readers, back to life. The vote on that bill was 42-58. Now, lawmakers will have to work together to come up with a compromise, and they don't have much time. (more...)

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