The clock is ticking.(Slants & Trends)(speculations over passing of bills on literacy programs)(Brief Article)

Report on Literacy Programs, September, 2004

THE CLOCK IS TICKING--Time is running out for key reauthorization and spending bills, as Congress heads back to Washington this week after a month-long recess. Many have plans to leave town again quickly to hit the campaign trail. That will not leave much time for action on literacy-related programs, and now even the one piece of legislation that advocates thought might emerge--the Perkins vocational education reauthorization--looks doubtful too. The bill had been put on a fast track in the House over the summer, and a Senate markup had been hoped for before the August recess (RLP, July 22, p. 113). But since that did not happen, now "the feeling is that if they can't get it done, there's no point in their marking it up," David Baime, of the American Association of...

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