4) What kind of bill did the U.S. House of Representatives pass on January 28, 2009 (House Passes Economic Bill with Huge Boost for Education)?
the U.S. House of Representatives passed an $819 billion economic stimulus bill January 28 that provides significant new sums of money for education. This bill would increase student aid and loans, provide tax credits for higher education, allocate billions for the repair and renovation of campus and research facilities and dramatically increase funding for research through such agencies as the Department of Energy, the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health. “To ensure our children can compete and succeed in this new economy, we’ll renovate and modernize 10,000 schools, building state-of-the-art classrooms, libraries and labs to improve learning for over 5 million students. We’ll invest more in Pell grants to make college affordable for 7 million more students, provide a $2,500 college tax credit to 4 million students, and triple the number of fellowships in science to help spur the next generation of innovation,” he said.