Tension Over Spending for Reading First
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Tension Over Spending for Reading First

By Mary Ann Zehr — February 24, 2009 1 min read
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“Reading First is still out” of the spending bill for fiscal 2009 expected to soon be taken up by the U.S. Congress, according to my colleague Alyson Klein over at Politics K-12. But at the same time, Rep. Howard P. “Buck” McKeon of California, the top Republican in the House Education and Labor Committee, is expressing discontent about the committee’s decision to kill what had been the flagship reading program of the No Child Left Behind Act.

Mary Ann Zehr
Mary Ann Zehr was an assistant editor for Education Week. Her beats included English-language learners, bilingual education, immigrants, dropouts, achievement-gap issues, and charter and private schools. She was the author of the blog Learning the Language.

A version of this news article first appeared in the Curriculum Matters blog.