Sentences with phrase «federal education spending»
The landmark No Child Left Behind legislation was accompanied by big increases in federal education spending.
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And federal education spending focuses directly on giving states and districts money to close achievement gaps, which assumes money matters.
In its original form, the program never topped $ 500 million in federal funding — less than one - half of 1 percent of current federal education spending overall.
The House education bill calls for cutting federal education spending by $ 2 billion, including a $ 191 million cut to the 21st Century Community Learning Centers, according to the nonprofit group Afterschool Alliance.
For example, Sen. Rand Paul's plan cuts federal education spending by 83 percent while cutting defense 6.5 percent.
Most schools and districts are unlikely to feel immediate effects of a shutdown because the advanced funding nature of federal education spending means that states and districts have already received much of their federal funding for the school year.
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The accountability provisions of the law bedevil the unions to this day, but the large increase in federal education spending ended up helping the unions» bottom line, as still more teachers and support workers were hired.
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts and Rep. George Miller of California, the leading Democrats on the committees that focus on education in each chamber, used those numbers at a news conference to call for more federal education spending to bolster sagging state budgets.
One reason that I'm relatively sympathetic to Trump here is the cavalier manner in which so many advocates approach federal education spending.
House Democrats want to put their own stamp on federal education spending by increasing Title I and other programs they favor and slashing Reading First and other priorities set by President Bush.
Washington — House Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill last week sharply criticized a Senate - passed deficit - reduction measure that could drastically reduce federal education spending.
The administration's FY2018 budget went further, targeting reductions in federal education spending totaling $ 9 billion, which would have amounted to a 13 percent cut in the DOE's $ 68 billion annual budget.
Five, this all explains why I'm puzzled that unions haven't moved to embrace school choice and oppose federal education spending.
The blow to states - rights principles from national standards could be softened with pledges to block - grant federal education spending and encourage competition through charter schools or school vouchers, along the lines described in the contribution from Chester Finn and Michael Petrilli in this issue (see «A New New Federalism,» p. 48).
Those findings, which echo the GOP education agenda, will be used to shape federal education spending this year, said Rep. Peter Hoekstra of Michigan, House Speaker Newt Gingrich of Georgia, and other Republicans who gathered in the Capitol late last week.
A Presidential commission on Hispanic education will recommend next month that a reporting and monitoring system be created to track how federal education spending serves Hispanics, panel members say.
The reality for those who would champion a lot of new federal education spending is that no one has shown much inclination to tackle any of this.
The proposal is one cut among many in a budget that would slash federal education spending by $ 9 billion, or 13.5 percent, in 2018.
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But when the budget numbers came out a few weeks later, the HBCU presidents weren't feeling the love: According to The Atlantic, Trump's first budget «slices federal education spending by 13.5 percent but claims to «maintain» minority institutions and HBCUs at around $ 492 million, the same amount the [Obama] administration initially budgeted.»
Drawing from a new report on government spending on children, Bruce Lesley president of First Focus finds, «Federal support for education has dropped from a high of $ 74 billion in 2010 to $ 41 billion in 2015, a decline of more than 40 percent in the last five years... Federal education spending remains 9 percent lower than in pre-recession 2008.»
Most FY12 federal education spending will be frozen at FY11 levels under a measure approved by the Senate Appropriations Committee on a party - line vote of 16 — 14.
Ujifusa, A. ««Hail Mary» Budget Move Could Throw Federal Education Spending Into Question.»
Both Barack Obama and Mitt Romney favour charter schools, but at a time of probable cuts in federal education spending their growth may slow.
Education Next's Paul Peterson and Chester E. Finn, Jr. talk this week (October 8) about Education Secretary Arne Duncan's recent speech, the future of federal education spending, and making NCLB's successor tighter about ends and looser about means.
The radio ads criticize Buerkle, claiming she supports a Republican bill to cut federal education spending by 40 percent, as well as reduce science and technology research spending by 40 percent.
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Congress expanded Medicare by adding a prescription - drug entitlement that will cost hundreds of billions of dollars, and federal education spending has gone up as well.
The new law also includes a boost in federal education spending, which translates into an additional $ 240 million for Illinois.
«Elise unfortunately voted to reduce future funding for Pell Grants,» said Derrick, who called for an increase in federal education spending.
Last month, Congress approved the biggest increase ever in federal education spending — 18 percent.
Attached to the treats was a letter claiming that 4 million cookies would have to be sold at that price to replace proposed reductions in federal education spending.
Education Next's Paul Peterson and Chester E. Finn, Jr. talk this week about Education Secretary Arne Duncan's recent speech, the future of federal education spending, and making NCLB's successor tighter about ends and looser about means.
The hyperbole that greeted the nothingburger of Trump's budget swamped the chance to discuss whether some federal education spending should be cut.
I find it ironic that of all the waste in federal education spending, Republicans might cut some of the few programs that are actually tied to funding non-governmental organizations that work.
Podcast: Education Next's Paul Peterson and Chester E. Finn, Jr. talk this week about Education Secretary Arne Duncan's recent speech, the future of federal education spending, and making NCLB's successor tighter about ends and looser about means.
In turn, Congress approved increased federal education spending.
The platform also prioritizes state and local control of schools, emphasizing the need to rein in federal education spending.
Unless Congress repeals sequestration, federal education spending will be cut by about $ 4.1 billion beginning as early as January 2013.
As Education Week's Andrew Ujifusa recently observed, the proposed 2017 - 2018 cuts represent the largest proposed reduction to federal education spending «since President Ronald Reagan sought a 35.7 percent cut to the department in his proposed 1983 budget.»
More recent examples include proposed changes to DACA (the Obama - era executive order that protects younger immigrants without citizenship from being deported), Title IX (which governs the treatment of sexual assault on campuses), and federal education spending.
President Barack Obama's budget proposal next month will include a request for a $ 2.7 billion increase in federal education spending.
Congress» New Year's Day drama, ending a stalemate over extending tax cuts for all but the wealthy, delays rather than resolves an across - the - board 8.2 percent decrease in federal education spending.
Federal education spending could look very appealing to future Congresses trying to offset lost revenue unless the trickle down theory suddenly works for the first time ever.
Yet, educational achievement barriers — compounded by the Trump administration's rescinding of DACA and drastic proposed cuts to federal education spending — will continue to keep Latinxs teachers out of the classroom.