K12> SENATE REJECTS EFFORT TO FULLY FUND NCLB-from AFT News

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Date:         Fri, 12 Mar 2004 18:28:51 EST
From:         Bonnie Bracey <BBracey@xxxxxxx>
Subject:      SENATE REJECTS EFFORT TO FULLY FUND NCLB-from AFT News
To:           K12ADMIN@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

The Republican Senate last week rejected a bid to fully fund the No Child
Left Behind Act before approving the final fiscal year 2005 budget resolution
51-45 on March 12. An amendment proposed by Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) and
co-sponsored by Sen. John Kerry and others to provide $8.6 billion to help 
schools
meet the federal mandate of NCLB failed on a 46-52 vote. Unfortunately, the
Senate's 2005 budget resolution "provides an insufficient increase for 
education
programs and does not provide adequate fiscal relief to states," said AFT
legislative director Charlotte Fraas in a letter to senators. In addition to
shortchanging NCLB, she noted that by freezing other vital education programs 
at
their current funding levels, the budget resolution actually cuts these
programs by failing to provide even an inflationary increase for FY2005. The 
budget
originally failed to increase the maximum Pell Grant at a time when college and
university students are facing rising college costs. The Senate adopted an
amendment offered by Sen. Norm Coleman (R-Minn.) to increase the maximum Pell
Grant to $4,500, but did so with an across-the-board cut to all other programs.
In the final budget resolution vote, no Republicans voted against the
resolution, with one Democrat (Georgia's Zell Miller) voting for it. The 
legislation
is currently before the House, and AFT leaders are urged to contact their
members of Congress to ask them to produce a final budget resolution that funds
critical priorities such as education, healthcare and state fiscal relief and
rejects tax cuts for the wealthy. 

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