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).
Not exact matches
«Elise unfortunately voted to reduce future funding for Pell
Grants,» said Derrick, who called for an increase in
federal education spending.
The
federal government
spends $ 176 million a year on abstinence - only
education, and millions more are
spent every year in state and local matching
grants.
The Senate passed a nearly $ 32 billion
spending bill for
education and other social programs last week, but Democrats and the Clinton administration were outraged by a provision in the bill that would transform most
federal education funding into block
grants.
Federal policy plays an important role in the financing of postsecondary
education at institutions by providing
grants to low - income students and access to loans to all students, in both cases on similar terms regardless of whether the funds are to be
spent at a public, for - profit, or private, non-profit college.
That's a huge expansion of
federal higher
education spending; for comparison, the Congressional Budget Office projects that the Pell
Grant program, the biggest part of the
federal financial aid budget right now, will cost $ 380 billion over the next 10 years.
The good news is that though Title IV had been targeted for elimination by President Donald Trump and U.S. Secretary of
Education Betsy DeVos, congress rebuffed the administration by giving a big boost to the block
grants in the
federal omnibus
spending bill signed into law March 23.
I recently wrote a paper for The Hamilton Project that proposes a
Federal matching
grant to support higher
education spending in states that commit to providing tuition - free college.
Other problematic requirements, from the perspective of the officials interviewed, related to civil rights data collection, (
Education Week reported extensively on that data) the
Federal Funding and Transparency Act, and federal time distribution reports (the report noted that «in order for state and local federal grant recipients to use federal funds to pay salaries for their employees, they must document the employees» time spent on federally funded activ
Federal Funding and Transparency Act, and
federal time distribution reports (the report noted that «in order for state and local federal grant recipients to use federal funds to pay salaries for their employees, they must document the employees» time spent on federally funded activ
federal time distribution reports (the report noted that «in order for state and local
federal grant recipients to use federal funds to pay salaries for their employees, they must document the employees» time spent on federally funded activ
federal grant recipients to use
federal funds to pay salaries for their employees, they must document the employees» time spent on federally funded activ
federal funds to pay salaries for their employees, they must document the employees» time
spent on federally funded activities.)
Given the fiscal priorities of the Trump administration, however, state and local
education officials will likely experience decreases in
education spending and
grant funding at the
federal level.
The administration promised $ 1 billion in new
spending on preschool; spurred states to adopt controversial K - 12 reforms such as performance - based teacher evaluations and the adoption of the Common Core State Standards through its Race to the Top
grant program and waivers to the No Child Left Behind law; significantly expanded the federal School Improvement Grant program to turn around low - performing schools; targeted for - profit colleges and attempted to increase accountability in the higher education sector; and pushed a proposal by the president to make community college
grant program and waivers to the No Child Left Behind law; significantly expanded the
federal School Improvement
Grant program to turn around low - performing schools; targeted for - profit colleges and attempted to increase accountability in the higher education sector; and pushed a proposal by the president to make community college
Grant program to turn around low - performing schools; targeted for - profit colleges and attempted to increase accountability in the higher
education sector; and pushed a proposal by the president to make community college free.
During his recent testimony before the House
Education Appropriations Subcommittee, U.S. Secretary of
Education Arne Duncan blasted House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan's (R - WI) FY13 budget proposal to slash
federal spending, which the White House estimates would result in a more than 5 percent cut -LRB-- $ 784 million) to Title I
grants (currently $ 14.5 billion) in FY13 and a 19 percent cut -LRB-- $ 2.7 billion) in FY14.
Last month the Department of
Education released findings from an annual survey of school districts regarding their
spending of a $ 2.3 billion
federal grant program that is intended to improve the quality and effectiveness of our nation's teachers.
Federal spending K - 12, while limited, has a long reach: $ 14.9 billion in local Title I
grants, $ 11.9 billion in special
education grants, $ 9.1 billion in Head Start for pre-K children.
The program ended when Congress failed to appropriate funds for its continuation in the 2015
federal spending bill.14 In some sectors, there is increased debate about whether
federal funds for
education are best allocated through formulas or competitive processes, with opponents of competitive
grants citing a desire to reduce
federal influence in favor of state and locally - driven
education policies.