Congress reaches a bipartisan deal on funding for minority-serving colleges

By Danielle Douglas-Gabriel

Dec. 4, 2019 at 2:40 p.m. MST

After months of political infighting, a bipartisan agreement could restore millions of dollars in federal funding to minority-serving colleges and universities that expired at the end of September.

Senate Education Committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) and Sen. Patty Murray (Wash.), the committee’s ranking Democrat, released a proposal Tuesday to make permanent $255 million in annual funding for tribal colleges, Hispanic-serving institutions and historically black colleges and universities. The proposal amends legislation the House passed in September by including plans to simplify the federal…Full Article

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