The House vote on the package came just days after Biden signed into law a $1.2 trillion infrastructure package that provides money for schools to remove lead pipe lines, expand broadband access and purchase electric school buses. Instead the package includes resources to make higher education more affordable by increasing Pell Grant awards for low-income college students. Gone from the plan is the $82 billion investment that the House proposed for schools facilities. President Joe Biden also agreed to jettison an initiative offering free community college tuition. The package puts $300 million toward the e E-Rate Emergency Connectivity Fund, which can help students connect to the internet.
$600 million for grants for career and technical educations programs in the next five years.$112 million to create Hawkins Centers of Excellence at minority-serving institutions.$112 million to create "grow your own programs" to address shortages of teachers in critical areas.$112 million to develop and support high-quality teacher residency programs.$112 million to support school principals.$161 million for developing personnel to support students with disabilities.$200 million for teacher training to support the survival and viability of Native American languages.In addition to the pre-K and child care funding, the bill would provide: Without his vote or any support from Senate Republicans, the measure will not advance. In the Senate, though, West Virginia Democrat Joe Manchin said he cannot support the package. House Democrats voted in November to approve the $1.75 trillion plan that includes more funding for K-12 schools, as well as about $400 billion to make child care more affordable and to secure six years of funding for universal pre-K for 3- and 4-year-old children. (Updated 12/20) The future of the Build Back Better plan, with its investments in child care and prekindergarten, remains uncertain as a key Democratic senator announced he will not vote for the bill.
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