The Chronicle of Higher Education

Colleges Would Be Required to Teach the Constitution, Under Provision Tucked Into Spending Bill

By KARIN FISCHER

Washington

Sen. Robert C. Byrd, a West Virginia Democrat and the Senate's unofficial constitutional scholar, has inserted language into the final $388-billion spending bill for 2005 requiring that any educational institution that receives federal aid offer its students an instructional...

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