Senate Panel Rejects Bid to Further Boost TIF
The U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee turned back a bipartisan effort Thursday to increase funding for the Teacher Incentive Fund by an extra $100 million, after overwhelmingly approving a bill for financing the U.S. Department of Education in fiscal 2010.
Without the amendment, the bill included $300 million for the TIF, a teacher-performance-pay program that is currently funded at $97 million. The Obama administration had asked for $487 million for the Teacher Incentive Fund in its fiscal 2010 budget request, and the U.S. House of Representatives last week approved $445 million for the program.
The spending measure approved 29-1 by the Senate committee would provide $63.45 billion for the Education Department in fiscal 2010, an increase of $800 million over fiscal 2009. Though that increase would be modest, the department received an extra, unprecedented boost of up to $100 billion over two years in...
This article is available to subscribers only.
To keep reading this article and more, subscribe now or purchase this article.
Subscribe to Education Week and Save
Get a full year and save up to 45%!
Viewed
Emailed
Recommended
Commented
- Chief Academic Officer
- Adams 14, Commerce City, CO
- Middle School Language Arts Teacher
- TEAM Schools, Newark, NJ
- Superintendent
- Pinellas County Schools, Pinellas County, FL
- Project Manager- (Hawaii)
- Pearson Education, HI
- Program Coordinator
- Institute for Educational Advancement, South Pasadena, CA
