Current-Year Budget Moving In Congress
Vouchers for D.C. pupils targeted in spending plan, Reading First would end
The long-overdue, fiscal year 2009 spending bill passed by the U.S. House of Representatives last week would eliminate funding for the controversial Reading First program and—in a move drawing harsh criticism from school choice supporters—strike a potentially fatal blow to the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program.
The measure covering the current year, which slices education funding in a different way from the fiscal 2010 budget proposal unveiled last week, would finance the U.S. Department of Education at $66.5 billion, up from just over $62 billion in fiscal 2008, a 7 percent increase.
The House version of the spending bill, which includes billions of dollars in Pell Grants for college students in its departmental calculation, also provide modest boosts for key education programs, such as Title I grants for disadvantaged students and spending for...
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