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Senate panel votes to freeze funding for key K-12 programs
- 09-22-2011
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Blog by Alyson Klein/Education Week
K-12 education - including money for disadvantaged children and special education - would see stagnant funding under a measure approved Wednesday by the Senate Appropriations Committee Wednesday The bill, which was approved on party-line vote of 16-14, aims to reverse some of the cuts to K-12 education programs in the current budget for fiscal year 2011, which ends Sept. 30. The bill would give national non-profit organizations that lost funds—such as the National Writing Project and Reading is Fundamental—a chance to compete for new funds. And it would provide another year of funding for Striving Readers, an adolescent literacy program, which received no new money in the fiscal 2011 budget. (more...)
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