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43 education programs Republicans want to eliminate
- 05-17-2011
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Blog by Valerie Strauss/Washington Post
Forty-three education programs — including those that promote literacy, teacher development and droppout prevention — have been targeted for elimination in a Republican-sponsored bill in the House as a first step toward rewriting the law known as No Child Left Behind. The bill was introduced by Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-CA., chairman of the subcommitee that oversees preK-12 policy, and praised by Rep. John Kline, R-MN, chairman of the House Education & The Workforce Committee, but criticized by the panel’s ranking Democrat, Rep. George Miller of California, who said it would do nothing to improve public education. Kline, who will lead the House effort to rewrite NCLB, formally known as the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, has said he wants to do the reauthorization in pieces rather than in one huge bill. This is the first. The list of 43 programs is divided into five categories: (more...)
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