The following is from Education Week. The House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education approved by voice vote a spending plan with $446 million for the Teacher Incentive Fund (TIF), which seeks to help reward effective teachers and principals. Other funding includes:
- $256 million for charter schools;
- $50 million for a new high school dropout prevention program;
- $10 million for a new Promise Neighborhoods program;
- more than $400 milllion for "new approaches to improving reading instruction in our schools."
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