Education Week – Alyson Klein
“So Congress is apparently closing in on a deal to finance the government—including the U.S. Department of Education—through federal fiscal year 2014, which largely impacts the 2014-15 school year…”The big sticking point on dollars is funding [or not] for preschool development grants and Race to the Top,” said Joel Packer, the executive director of the Committee for Education Funding, in an email. “I believe the administration wants both.””(more)