[education-wg] H.R. 3221 update?

[James Salsman]

I just looked a little further, and now I see that Sections 501 and
505 of the H.R. 3221 bill, which as Greg DeKoenigsberg mentioned
allocate $50 million over 10 years for open courseware, are dwarfed by
the remainder of the bill, which includes such things as the "Defund
ACORN Act" (Sec. 601-602) and various special subsidies such as
"SUPPLEMENTAL GRANTS FOR LOUISIANA, MISSISSIPPI, AND ALABAMA"
(sections 321-323) etc.

I'd love to see a national commitment to a class size of 15 students
per teacher and teacher salaries competitive with the other skilled
professions, but most of this bill is too particular for that.

Is there any way we can make a concerted effort to ask that sections
501 and 505 be moved into whatever senate omnibus bills are coming up
over the next month, along with a more uniform reduction of class
sizes and increase in teacher salaries?

On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 7:41 PM, James Salsman <jsalsman at gmail.com> wrote:
> H.R. 3221 passed the House but has been sitting in Sen. Tom Harkin's
> Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee since last
> September 22nd.
> http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d111:h.r.03221:
>
> Does anyone know if he or any of the other senators on that committee
> are interested in reporting it?
>