Since this is an open-book test, I'll answer for you. In fact, the battleground issue in Congress when it comes to education is not funding. Republicans and Democrats agree that public schools should be adequately funded. Instead, the issue we fight about is local control of education.
Republicans favor local control, and vote for local control.
The bill would essentially send federal teacher training funds directly to local school districts and individual teachers, allowing them to select and develop the teacher training programs of their choice. The argument came down to local control. The bill would give local school districts the discretion to decide how much of their federal funding should be used for class size reduction and how much for eacher training. We have seen that California's ambitious class size reduction plan resulted in a lot of money being spent in order to shrink the size of classrooms in grades 1-3 . But there has been no corresponding improvement in student test scores.