Capital Update
Legislative Action
Direct Loans
HR 4210
The Senate Finance Committee last week approved tax legislation that includes provisions to create a direct, income-contingent loan program.
FY 1993 Education Budget
The House last week approved a budget resolution setting spending guidelines for fiscal 1993. The House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education continued hearings on education spending.
School Lunch
The Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee last week held a hearing on the school lunch program. The American School Food Service Association proposed that all elementary-school children receive a free lunch, financed by income taxes on families that now purchase lunches.
Welfare Reform
S 2303
Senator Daniel P. Moynihan, Democrat of New York, introduced legislation last week that would require full funding of education and job-training programs for welfare recipients.

Education Department
Even Start
Proposed Rules
The Education Department published in the Feb. 28 Federal Register proposed rules for the Even Start program for disadvantaged preschoolers and their parents, which is to move from federal to state administration this year. Comments are due March 30.
Precollegiate Programs
Public Hearings
The Education Department last week announced hearings designed to
solicit public comment for next year's reauthorization of federal
precollegiate education programs. The notice appeared in the March 4
Federal Register; participants must register by March 12.
Vol. 11, Issue 25
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