Education Law

Victory on Capitol Hill

We'll say upfront that this posting is past due, but school boards won a crucial victory in Congress last week when the House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved the supplemental appropriations bill that included a moratorium on Medicaid reimbursement important to school districts. The inclusion of the moratorium, needed because of an Adminstration rule to end the reimbursements, was one of a limited number of domestic priorities that survived in the final bill, which now heads to the Senate.

Also last week, a House panel approved increases, though not nearly to the level needed, for Title I and special education. The full House Appropriations Committee and a Senate subcommittee will continue work on education funding this week. Get all the details on that issue and others in the NSBA Advocacy highlights.

And if you can't wait to read those weekly Hill updates here on BoardBuzz, visit the Advocacy website every Monday morning.

Full post as published by BoardBuzz: NSBA's Daily Weblog on June 24, 2008 (boomark / email).