The Senate Finance Committee is scheduled next week to take up an education tax package that contains a number of proposals of interest to colleges and universities.
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Institutions have less than a month before they must make public their teacher pass rate data. House and Senate lawmakers are expected to continue work on President Bush's tax proposals next week. In the Senate, the Finance Committee is scheduled on Tuesday to take action on an education tax package that contains several proposals of interest to the higher education community. It is unclear how many of these provisions will make it into the bill at the Tuesday mark-up. On Wednesday, the Senate Finance Committee is scheduled to hold a hearing on Bush's charitable giving and IRA rollover proposals.