The government is planning to
cut federal funding for programs aimed at increasing access to justice and developing court efficiencies by 20 per cent by 2015 - 16.
On Sept. 8, the Utah State Board of Education is expected to act on the plan, which is essentially an application for $ 123 million
in federal funds for programs that assist children experiencing homelessness, live in poverty or whose parents are migrant farmworkers, among other initiatives.
Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act — which Congress reauthorized last month through passage of the Every Student Succeeds Act of 2015 —
authorizes federal funding for programs to raise the achievement of students identified as being at risk of academic failure.
The study looked at 25 voucher programs (20 traditional voucher and 5 education savings account programs) across the country and found that these voucher programs significantly complicated the receipt
of federal funding for programs in public schools in those states.
Both the Senate and House bills would scale back
federal funding for the program, which the Cuomo administration has said would make it unsustainable.