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January 12 - Humanities Endowment Chairman Shifting Jobs: Reagan Nominates Bennett As Secretary of Education

February 2 - Bennett Confirmation Hearing: Reagan Agrees to Drop Effort to Dismantle Department of Education

February 9 - $15.5 Billion for Education Proposed: Reagan Calls for Major Cuts In Student Loans and Grants

February 9 - Bennett OK'd as Education Secretary

February 16 - Cultural Agencies Slated for Budget Cuts

February 16 - Public Broadcast Reductions Sought

February 23 - Hill Might Cut Student Aid Through Lenders

March 16 - Would Reverse Court School Ruling: Bills Launched to Let Parents Of Disabled Win Legal Fees

March 30 - Increase Proposed for Science Foundation Budget

April 6 - Curran Nominated to Head Humanities Endowment

April 6 - Panel Votes Bill Overturning Legal Fee Ruling

April 6 - Science Foundation Funds Raised

April 13 - Education Research Agency Critics Abound

April 13 - Reagan's Cuts Trimmed, Loans Restricted: Budget Plan Sets New Student-Aid Limits

April 20 - House Votes NSF Spending Freeze

May 4 - Court to Review 'Non-Bank Bank' Regulations: Parents of Handicapped Pupils Win Reimbursement Dispute

May 11 - Committee Rejects Freeze on Arts Spending

June 1 - BUDGET CONFERENCE OUTLOOK - Administration's Deep Cuts Rejected: House, Senate Divided on Student Aid Cuts

June 15 - Bill Would Refocus Medical Education Aid

June 15 - Credits Called Equity Measure: Reagan Continues to Push Tuition Tax Breaks

June 29 - House, Senate Divided: Foreign Aid, Water Disputes Delay Talks on Supplemental

July 6 - Bennett to Abolish National Institute of Education

July 13 - Education Department Still Objects: Senate Panel Compromises On Handicapped Legal Fees

July 13 - Graduate Medical Education Under Scrutiny: Committee Seeks to Reshape Physician Training Choices

July 13 - Severe Loss of Funding Feared: School Groups Scramble to Protect Tax Breaks

July 20 - NSF, 'Secular Humanism'

July 20 - Nurse Training

August 3 - Nurse Training/Cigarette Labeling Bill Cleared

August 10 - CONGRESS AT MIDYEAR: Education

August 24 - $50 Million in the Pipeline for Repairs: Tougher Standards Advocated For School Asbestos Cleanup

August 24 - Nursing Education Aid Bill Signed

September 14 - Debate Over Loans vs. Grants: Congress Faces Hard Choices Over Aid to College Students

September 14 - Student Aid Programs

September 14 - Who Is 'Typical' College Student?

September 21 - House Committee OKs Attorneys' Fee Bill

September 21 - Labor-HHS Funding Bill Advances in Senate Panel

September 21 - Members Cut Student Loan Spending

September 28 - Rejects Attempt to Block Court Decision: House Panel OKs $105 Billion For Labor-HHS Spending Bill

September 28 - Senate Passes NSF Bill

October 5 - Black Colleges Seek Boost in Federal Funding

October 5 - House, Senate Committees Complete Their Required Reconciliation Actions: Student Loan Spending Trimmed

October 12 - House Panel Begins Drafting College Aid Bill

October 26 - Senate Approves Fiscal '86 Labor/HHS Funds

November 2 - House Panel Proposes Raising Student Grants

November 9 - Congress Clears $1.52 Billion for NSF

November 9 - Reagan Names Former Governor to Head HHS

November 16 - $11 Billion Authorization: House Panel Revises Formulas For College Student Assistance

November 16 - Bennett Urges School Voucher Plan

November 16 - Congress Moving to Bolster Law: Education for Handicapped Seen as Policy Success Story

November 23 - Curran Nomination Rejected by Senate Panel

December 7 - Congress Renews Cultural Agencies

December 7 - Fiscal 1986 Labor-HHS-Education Funding (chart)

December 7 - House Approves College Aid Reauthorization

December 7 - Labor, Health and Human Services: $106.5 Billion Social Spending Measure Clears

December 14 - Senate Confirms Otis Bowen as HHS Secretary

December 14 - Senate Subcommittee OKs Higher Education Bill

December 28 - Special Report: Legislative Summary EDUCATION