Child Advocates Assail 5-Year Plan To Limit Spending

By Lynn Schnaiberg and Deborah L. Cohen

Washington

When the White House sent a package of proposed fiscal 1994 spending cuts to Congress last month, education advocates breathed a collective sigh of relief to see that Education Department programs were largely spared.

But a bipartisan group of 32 House members, led by Reps. Timothy J. Penny, D-Minn., and John R. Kasich, R-Ohio, may succeed in adding budget restrictions to the package that would serve to limit spending on education programs over...