Contract Renewal?

Conservative Republican group’s plan would cut education funding.

A group of more than 100 conservative Republicans in the House of Representatives is trying to evoke nostalgia for the 1990s—but they’re not aiming to revive the Macarena or the Beanie Babies craze.

They want political junkies to turn back to the Republican “Contract With America,” the 1994 policy manifesto that helped the GOP win control of Congress after decades of mostly minority status. On March 8, the Republican Study Committee, a group of House members seeking to further a rightward agenda, released a...