Word: budget
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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BOSTON--The Massachusetts House of Representatives yesterday rejected a budget amendment that would have granted millions of dollars to poorer school districts...
...House budget suggested appropriating $108 million for EEO grants, $2 million less than this fiscal year...
...Michael S. Dukakis proposed $139 million in EEO funding. His $12.9 billion budget has been brushed aside by the House because it relies on a massive tax hike...
Nonetheless, players at both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue who just a fortnight ago spoke of working together have dissolved their fragile partnership and reverted to form. Democrats now speak openly of responding to Bush's budget proposals with a plan of their own. For its part, the White House hinted that it may soon ask Congress for renewed nonmilitary aid to the Nicaraguan contras, a red flag to Democrats who repeatedly fought over the contras with the Reagan Administration. Meanwhile, the public is left with an image of the Senate as a cockpit of partisan squabbling, the White House...
...biggest backers of choice is George Bush, who has called it a "national imperative." Choice, as Bush uses it, focuses on two major plans: magnet schools and open enrollment. In his budget address last month, the President proposed that Congress authorize $100 million annually to develop magnet schools, so called because they attract students by developing specialties in areas like drama, creative writing, science and math...