Stimulus Debate Raises Issues Involving K-12 Funds
The sheer scale of the new education aid envisioned under the economic-stimulus package now pending in Congress is forcing educators and state officials to consider how they would absorb that funding and how it could transform—or distort—school programs at the local level.
Officials from governors’ mansions on down are generally pleased at the prospect of billions of extra dollars for K-12 programs, early education, school construction, and other priorities.
The size of that bonanza remains somewhat in flux. Today, the U.S. Senate is considering a compromise proposal from a bipartisan group of lawmakers that would trim some $50 billion in education spending out of the bill passed by the Senate Appropriations Committee. Among other changes, it would remove $16 billion in school construction funding and significantly reduce aid to help...
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