A bipartisan group of Senators have agreed on an amendment to the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act that would make the following changes to education stimulus funding previously approved by the House:
(1) Reduce school lunch equipment program from $198 million to $100 million
(2) Reduce Head Start & Early Head Start from $2 billion to $1 billion
(3) Reduce Title I of No Child Left Behind from $13 billion to $12.4 billion
(4) Eliminate the entire $16 billion for school construction
(5) Reduce the state stablization fund from $79 billion to $39 billion
These proposed reducations may or may not be accepted by the Senate, which debated until Saturday afternoon. A floor vote may come as early as Tuesday.
Details of compromise cuts from Education Week at http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/campaign-k-12/2009/02/moderate_amendment_scales_back.html
Discussion of debate from CNN at http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/07/stimulus/
Spreadsheet of proposed amendment from Nebraska Sen. Ben Nelson's Web site http://bennelson.senate.gov/documents/Nelson-Collins%20Stimulus%20Final.xls
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