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Inside Higher Ed by Doug Lederman | Feb. 7, 2009 (News Report)

Hope you haven’t spent that stimulus money yet.

A compromise amendment worked out by moderate Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. Senate late Friday slashed billions of dollars that would have flowed to colleges and universities in the Senate’s original version, with the biggest cuts coming in education aid to states and funds to modernize college facilities.

To the relief of advocates for students, the compromise legislation ... Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Kristin Gorski - Feb 8, 2009 - 5:45 AM PST
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 by Dale Penn - Feb. 8, 2009

Contains a chart at the end of the story showing the reconciling items on the higher education portion of the stimulus between the House and Senate versions of the bill.

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