Budget Plan Includes Public-School-Choice Provision
The House last Thursday approved a budget bill that ironed out remaining differences between Congress and the White House over education spending in fiscal 2000 and other programs contained in the five budget bills that President Clinton had yet to sign into law.
The nearly $36 billion education budget negotiated by the Clinton administration and federal lawmakers contained several last-minute surprises, including funding for a small-schools initiative and a controversial measure that would require consistently poor-performing schools to provide students with public school choice.
The choice measure, which was pushed by Republicans as part of an agreement to set aside $134 million for chronically failing schools, has prompted opposition...
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