NYT describes proposed education funding in stimulus bill
January 27, 2009
Excerpt from article
The bill would increase 2009 fiscal year spending on Title I, a program
of specialized classroom efforts to help educate poor children, to $20
billion from about $14.5 billion, and raise spending on education for
disabled children to $17 billion from $11 billion.
Those increases respond to longtime demands by teachers unions, school
boards and others that Washington fully finance the mandates laid out
for states and districts in the Bush-era No Child Left Behind
<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/n/no_child\
_left_behind_act/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier> law, and in the main
federal law regulating special education.
“We’ve been arguing that the federal government hasn’t been
living up to its commitments, but these increases go a substantial way
toward meeting them,” said Joel Packer, a lobbyist for the National
Education Association
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ional_education_association/index.html?inline=nyt-org> , the
nation’s largest teachers union.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/28/education/28educ.html?hp
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