Advocates of educational technology received encouraging news July 18 as members of the influential Senate Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Subcommittee voted to level-fund the Enhancing Education Through Technology block-grant program, the largest single source of ed-tech funding in the federal budget, at $272 million. The move comes after House lawmakers followed President Bush's proposal in voting to kill the program in the coming fiscal year. Though the program's fate is by no means guaranteed, the move leaves open the door for EETT to return in 2007.

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