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Transparency Watch: What the Heck Is in the House Education Spending Bill? - Politics K-12 - #Education Week

Transparency Watch: What the Heck Is in the House Education Spending Bill? - Politics K-12 - Education Week

Transparency Watch: What the Heck Is in the House Education Spending Bill?

Want to know whether the House Appropriations subcommittee that deals with K-12 spending decided to zero-out funding for your education program?
Or whether it wants to extend Race to the Top to school districts, not just states? Or whether there are changes to the Teacher Incentive Fund program? Or just how much money the School Improvement Grants are slated to get under a fiscal year 2011 spending bill that was approved by the subcommittee more than seven weeks ago?
Well, don't expect to get an answer any time soon.
Back on July 15, when the subcommittee approved the bill, its staff released a summary table and gave reporters