August 15, 2008
Education Secretary Protests New Grants in Reauthorization Bill
Margaret Spellings, the U.S. secretary of education, is not happy about the dozens of new grant programs tucked into a major higher-education bill that cleared Congress last month, and she is making her displeasure known.
In a letter sent to lawmakers, Ms. Spellings said that while the White House supports many pieces of the bill, which would reauthorize the Higher Education Act, the Bush administration remains concerned that the legislation would create more than 60 "new, costly, and
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