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January 21 - More Funds for Needy Proposed: Student Aid Plan Sets Stage For Higher Education Debate

January 21 - Summary of Major Issues Facing Congress in 1984: EDUCATION

February 4 - 1985 BUDGET: Reaction to Education Crisis: White House Reverses Field, Asks Modest School Aid Hike

February 4 - Library Aid Reauthorized

February 11 - Vocational Rehabilitation

February 18 - Vocational Education Act Due for Overhaul

February 25 - Cultural Authorizations Raised

February 25 - Foreign Language Education Aid

February 25 - Panel Approves Vocational Education Bill

March 3 - Permanent Reauthorization: House Committee Approves Vocational Education Bill

March 3 - Victory for Reagan Administration: Court Adopts Narrow View Of Sex Bias Ban in Education

March 10 - House Revamps Vocational Education Act

March 17 - Vocational Education Focus Moves to Senate

March 31 - National Science Foundation Authorization

April 7 - House Panel Approves Access Bill: Schools Opened to Student Religious Groups

April 14 - Adult Education, Library Aid Approved

April 28 - GOP, Democrats Square Off: House Subcommittee Retains Traditional Bilingual Program

April 28 - House Passes NSF Authorization

April 28 - Reagan Plan to Drop Grants Rebuffed: Panel Links Head Start, Anti-Poverty Grants

May 5 - Funding Targeted More Narrowly: Senate Panel Raises Vocational Education Aid

May 5 - Panel Approves Bilingual Aid Compromise

May 12 - After-School Day Care Approved

May 12 - Broad New Program of School Aid Voted

May 12 - Head Start, Fuel Aid, Block Grants: Social Services Bill Approved After Funding Pact Is Reached

May 19 - Margin of 11 Votes: House Scuttles Legislation On Student Religious Groups

June 9 - Objected to Ban on Amendments: Angry GOP Members Block Head Start Bill

June 9 - Religious Issue Stalls Math-Science Bill

June 9 - Simon Drops Higher Education Bill

June 23 - Acts Before House Committee: Senate Subcommittee Votes $94.3 Billion Labor/HHS Bill

June 23 - House Education Committee Action: Scholarships Approved to Recruit Teachers

June 23 - Pell Grant Funds Insufficient

June 23 - Senate Extends Library Aid

June 30 - Adult Education Program Extension Passed

June 30 - House Approves Scaled-Back Head Start Bill: Social Services Bill Passes on Second Try

June 30 - House Blocks Conference: Senate Broadens Legislation On Religious Student Groups

July 7 - Congress at Mid-Year 1984: Education

July 7 - Congress at Mid-Year 1984: Human Services

July 28 - Attached to Math-Science Aid: House Clears Bill Allowing Prayer Meetings in Schools

July 28 - House Adds to Education Bill: Bill Requires Schools to Permit Silent Prayer

August 4 - House Approves $96.1 Billion Labor-HHS Bill

August 4 - House-Passed Omnibus Education Bill Authorizes $1.3 Billion in Fiscal 1985

August 11 - House Adds to Library Services Bill

August 11 - House Votes Teacher Scholarships

August 11 - Senate Passes Vocational Education Bill

August 11 - Veterans' Education Bill Passed

August 18 - House-Senate Conference: Issue of Targeting Aid Central To Vocational Education Bills

September 15 - 1984 Action Unlikely: Jousting Over Partisan Issues Stalls School Improvement Bill

September 22 - Vocational Aid Conference Starts

September 29 - Reagan, Mondale Split on Education Issues

October 6 - Aid to Libraries Cleared

October 6 - Education Bill Advanced After Prayer Omitted

October 6 - Head Start Extension

October 6 - Updating Programs, Training Disadvantaged: Congress Completes Action On Vocational Education Bill

October 13 - Block Grant Proposal Shelved: Five-Year Vocational Education Authorization Clears Congress

October 13 - Folded Into Adult, Bilingual Education Bill: Congress Again Protects Federal Impact Aid

October 13 - Labor, Health Spending Bill Clears

October 13 - Members Add Special Programs: Head Start Bill Cleared After Energy Aid Pact Is Reached

October 20 - Labor, Health and Human Services: 104.6 Billion Social Spending Measure Clears

October 20 - Labor-HHS-Education Funding

October 20 - Library Aid Reauthorized

October 20 - Summary of Major 1984 Congressional Action: EDUCATION

November 10 - Bell Resignation

November 24 - Colleges Lobby Congress for Facility Funds Avoid Academic 'Peer Review' Procedures

November 24 - Substantive Work Done Quietly: Hill Boosted School Spending; Several Reagan Cuts Reversed

December 22 - Special Report: Congressional Agenda EDUCATION