Tag: United States Senate
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ED Week: Congress Approves Budget Deal That Puts Brakes on Sequestration
Here. An excerpt: School districts chafing under the across-the-board federal cuts known as sequestrationare about to get a reprieve: The U.S. Senate gave final approval, on a vote of 64 to 36 Wednesday to a broad budget deal that would ward off the vast majority of the impending cuts to K-12 education spending—and nearly every other federal program—for…