The group of Democrats and Republicans in the House and Senate unveiled the details of a proposal to spend another $908 billion on pandemic relief, including extending aid for the unemployed and small businesses due to run out this month. The proposal also includes an additional $82 billion in education funding, with the majority, $54 billion, going to K-12 schools, as well as $7.5 billion to governors to distribute at their discretion. In getting only a quarter of the education dollars, higher education’s share would be far less than it received in the CARES Act, when about half of the education aid went to colleges and universities. As was required in Congress's last coronavirus relief package, half of the higher education dollars in the proposal would be earmarked for emergency student aid...
Full story at https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2020/12/15/bipartisan-group-congress-seeks-20-billion-pandemic-aid-colleges
As blog readers will know, the UC budget was partly contingent on federal aid that didn't come within the specified deadline.
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