Congress Budget Deal Unveiled: Impact on Higher Ed - Michael Stratford, Inside Higher Ed

Congressional leaders agreed Tuesday on a spending bill that would avoid a government shutdown and provide modest increases to student aid programs and scientific research. The compromise deal, which would fund most of the federal government until next October, does not fund the Education Department’s request for $10 million to help it produce the ratings. But neither does it include a provision that prohibits the department from moving ahead with development of the ratings. Senator Lamar Alexander, a Republican and incoming chair of the Senate education committee, had previously said he wanted to use the appropriations process to block the administration from producing college ratings. https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/12/10/congressional-deal-spending-would-modestly-boost-student-aid-and-research-restore