President Vows Veto Unless School Aid Grows

By Robert C. Johnston

Washington

President Clinton pledged last week to veto the next stopgap spending bill Congress sends him if it does not boost school funding, according to a National Education Association lobbyist.

A continuing resolution is financing through March 15 the Department of Education and other federal agencies without final 1996 appropriations. If the terms of the temporary bill were extended through the entire fiscal year, federal education funding would drop $3.1 billion from the 1995 level, including a $1 billion cut in the Title I compensatory-education program. (See Education...