| | February 6, 2009 EDUCATION FUNDING IN JEOPARDY: CALL YOUR SENATORS TODAY!!!! Education funding in the proposed economic recovery package is in serious danger. An amendment being offered by Senators Nelson (D-NE) and Collins (R-ME) would drastically reduce the education funding in the economic recovery package. This funding is very important. It will help save jobs and put more money immediately into struggling local economies. It will also reduce pressure on state budgets so more cuts to important programs can be avoided. The Nelson-Collins amendment would cut one-half of the funds allocated for:
These cuts would undermine the intent of the economic recovery package to take pressure off state budgets stretched to their limits and infuse critically needed resources immediately into local communities. See how the amendment would impact funding for your state. Contact your Senators Today! Tell Members of the Senate to VOTE NO on the Nelson-Collins amendment and to pass the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act with the education funding intact. |
Friday, February 6, 2009
ALERT!
This just in from the NEA:
I saw in the paper that the bill passed last night- do you have any idea what the final numbers were that passed?
ReplyDeleteThe best information I have this morning is this, from the NY Times:
ReplyDelete"The fine print was not immediately available, and the numbers were shifting. But in essence, the Democratic leadership and two centrist Republicans announced they had struck a deal on about $110 billion in cuts to the roughly $900 billion legislation — a deal expected to provide at least the 60 votes needed to send the bill out of the Senate and into negotiations with the House, which has passed its own version."
I will post things as I have them. The other piece of this we have to keep in mind, though, is what the Senate passed is enough to send it into negotiations with the House (which passed a more generous bill). Whatever they passed, the decision is now in committee.