[bfsa] Thank you for your support of College Tech Prep

[Arlene Floyd]

On Wednesday afternoon, the U.S. House of Representatives voted 416-9 to
approve H.R. 366, the Perkins reauthorization bill titled the
"Vocational and Technical Education for the Future Act." The Senate had
passed its own version (S. 250) on March 10 by a vote of 99-0. 
 
Reauthorization of Perkins has proceeded in a relatively bipartisan
manner indicated by such favorable vote totals. However, what is not
revealed in these votes is that the House version differs from the
Senate version on the following points. The House version does not
include a separate funding stream for Tech Prep and reduces allowable
administrative expenses from 5% to 2%. Although there was strong
Democratic opposition to the losses on these two issues, they agreed to
support the House bill, but expressed hope that both would be restored
when the House and Senate conferees meet to work out the differences in
the two bills.