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Truce

House Democrats negotiated a truce with Republican leaders last week in their month-long standoff over which education subcommittee has jurisdiction over issues related to minority colleges.

Rep. John A. Boehner, R-Ohio, who took over the chairmanship of the House Education and the Workforce Committee in January, initially put historically black, Hispanic, and tribally controlled institutions under the purview of the Select Education Subcommittee, which oversees student aid and juvenile justice, among other matters, as part of a committee restructuring. He assigned most higher education issues to the...