July 24, 2008

Battles Over State Spending and Black Colleges Slow Higher-Ed Bill

By Kelly Field

Washington

With just over a week remaining until the August recess, members of Congress and their aides are scrambling to complete work on a long-delayed bill to reauthorize the Higher Education Act.

Negotiations are now centered on just two issues: Should states be penalized for cutting their higher-education budgets? And should Congress create one new program for black colleges, or two?

Time is of the essence. After lawmakers return from the monthlong August recess, they

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