Post by lillian on Feb 13, 2009 11:11:52 GMT -5
The "Stimulus Package" has quite a bit of money allocated for education. Below is a summary of the funds being granted for IDEA, Head Start, and At-Risk Students:
This is the full text:
www.rules.house.gov/111/LegText/hr1_legtext_cr.pdf
What I have found, thus far in the text:
Pg. 12
100,000,000 for free lunch program
Pg. 161
1 billion for Head Start,
1 billion 100 thousand for expansion of early Head Start program
Pg. 168+
13 billion for NCLB (otherwise known as Title 1)
720 million for homeless students
200 million for teacher/principal performance pay
12 billion 200 thousand for IDEA
680 thousand for vocational rehab for adults with disabilities
Pg. 146
Adult and teenage education programs, which I won't detail, but if you are interested, this page is where they start describing them.
A bit of gossip, so take it as you will:
Word is that Speaker Pelosi fought like a dog to get this educational funding. When the bill was passed from the House to the Senate, much of the funding was cut. With the backing of President Obama, she got in contact with Majority Leader Reid and fought it out, saying she would not allow the cuts, when the bill was returned to the House. After some haggling, the majority of the education funding was put back in. It appears she (and President Obama) did lose the school infrastructure financing for new schools that was in the House's bill, after the bill went to the Senate. The Republican senators needed to keep a filabuster from occurring in the Senate (Senators Snowe, Collins, and Specter) limited the funding, which was greatly reduced, to improving existing schools and not allowing any construction of new schools. Still, educational funding, as a whole, appears to have been preserved.
This is the full text:
www.rules.house.gov/111/LegText/hr1_legtext_cr.pdf
What I have found, thus far in the text:
Pg. 12
100,000,000 for free lunch program
Pg. 161
1 billion for Head Start,
1 billion 100 thousand for expansion of early Head Start program
Pg. 168+
13 billion for NCLB (otherwise known as Title 1)
720 million for homeless students
200 million for teacher/principal performance pay
12 billion 200 thousand for IDEA
680 thousand for vocational rehab for adults with disabilities
Pg. 146
Adult and teenage education programs, which I won't detail, but if you are interested, this page is where they start describing them.
A bit of gossip, so take it as you will:
Word is that Speaker Pelosi fought like a dog to get this educational funding. When the bill was passed from the House to the Senate, much of the funding was cut. With the backing of President Obama, she got in contact with Majority Leader Reid and fought it out, saying she would not allow the cuts, when the bill was returned to the House. After some haggling, the majority of the education funding was put back in. It appears she (and President Obama) did lose the school infrastructure financing for new schools that was in the House's bill, after the bill went to the Senate. The Republican senators needed to keep a filabuster from occurring in the Senate (Senators Snowe, Collins, and Specter) limited the funding, which was greatly reduced, to improving existing schools and not allowing any construction of new schools. Still, educational funding, as a whole, appears to have been preserved.
