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

[James Salsman]

So, should we make a concerted effort to try to get section 505 and
its funding shoved into something else?

On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 8:10 PM, Greg DeKoenigsberg
<greg.dekoenigsberg at gmail.com> wrote:
> As I understand it, this bill is dead.  Pieces of it were shoved into the
> healthcare bill to get it through.  This bill, as it stands, will never
> leave committee.  Welcome to politics.
>
> --g
>
> On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 10:54 PM, James Salsman <jsalsman at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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?
>> >
>
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