Obama Signs Spending Bill to Protect Teachers’ Jobs
11 August 2010
President Obama signs a $26 billion measure to protect the jobs of over 300,000 teachers and other nonfederal government workers as lawmakers, officials and three teachers look on
This is the VOA Special English Education Report.
President Obama signed legislation Tuesday to provide twenty-six billion dollars to the states for education and healthcare.
The measure includes ten billion dollars for education and sixteen billion for Medicaid, the joint state-federal government medical program for the poor.
The legislation will help one hundred sixty thousand teachers and one hundred fifty thousand police and public service workers keep their jobs.
The House of Representatives approved the bill Tuesday. House members had already begun a six-week holiday when the Senate approved the measure last week.
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi took the rare step of calling House lawmakers back to Washington to vote on the bill and send it to President Obama without delay.
President Obama has stressed the importance of education for all Americans. He said this is necessary for the country to compete among some of the world’s fastest growing economies.
The president spoke Monday at the University of Texas. He talked about the decrease in college graduation rates in the United States.
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