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.
Through the Race to the Top initiative, for example, the Obama administration succeeded in incentivizing states: Even with relatively small pots of money — just $ 4 billion, or less than 2 percent
of federal education spending — the administration encouraged states to prioritize innovative teacher and principal reforms and develop rigorous academic standards.22 Thirty - four states modified their policies in response to the federal initiative, even though only 19 states received federal funding to do so.23
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.
The ESSA authorizes historically high levels
of federal education spending, continuing a trend that has increased federal intervention in local school policy while failing to improve educational outcomes for children.
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.
Not exact matches
Moreover, they argue that
federal subsidies are warranted because a significant portion
of state and local government
spending is for
education, health, public welfare, and transportation, all
of which have important spillovers that benefit the population in other jurisdictions as well.
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.
1) Repeal Obamacare; Pursue Patient - Centered Care 2) Stop the Tax Hikes 3) Reverse Obama's
Spending Increases 4) Scrap the Code; Replace It with a Flat Tax 5) Pass a Balanced Budget Amendment 6) Reject Cap and Trade 7) Rein in the EPA 8) Unleash America's Vast Energy Potential 9) Eliminate the Department
of Education 10) Reduce the Bloated
Federal Workforce 11) Curtail Excessive
Federal Regulation 12) Audit the Fed
Men pay the vast majority
of taxes and the vast majority
of state and
federal spending on health,
education and welfare goes to women.
The
federal definition
of inclusion means that a student
spends at least 80 %
of their day in regular general
education classes.
Roughly 2/3 to 3 / 4th
of that was on medicare, social security, unemployment, labor,
education, VA and such (the pie chart under «All
Federal Spending» section is best for one - glance view).
Now, Kenneth Raske
of the Greater New York Hospital Association is pulling hard the other way: «New York's financially struggling hospitals were living austerely within the state's Medicaid
spending cap well before the recent avalanche
of federal health care cuts,» Raske told the Daily News» Kenneth Lovett, «while other sectors, such as
education, have not been held to theirs.»
With the looming deficit and uncertainty
of federal spending priorities, state
education groups, the Education Department and Board of Regents have looked to modify some of their asks from recommendations made l
education groups, the
Education Department and Board of Regents have looked to modify some of their asks from recommendations made l
Education Department and Board
of Regents have looked to modify some
of their asks from recommendations made last year.
Stung by the expiration
of federal aid intended to help states balance budgets as they seek to recover from the recession that began in 2008, the final budget is also expected to include another cut in local aid to cities and towns and to call for reduced growth in the rate
of spending on
education and health care, although special
education is one
of the few areas in which significant investments appear imminent.
In some instances, the
federal stimulus plan could make our financial problems worse, by providing temporary financial support for permanent increases in our base - line health care and
education spending, that eventually will need new, state - level sources
of revenues to support.
In his letter, Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan (R - Suffolk County) accused the school system
of failing to comply with state
education law by not submitting the required forms showing a building - by - building breakdown
of how it
spends local, state and
federal funds.
The New York State Educational Conference Board, a coalition
of state
education organizations, is calling for a $ 2 billion increase in school aid in the 2018 - 19 state budget, despite a looming deficit and uncertainty over
federal spending.
Turner said that if it were up to him, he would cut
federal spending by 35 percent — including gutting the U.S. Department
of Agriculture and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and slashing the budget
of the U.S. Department
of Education — which he said would take about seven to 10 years to accomplish.
Heastie, a Democrat from the Bronx whose party - mates dominate the chamber by a two - to - one margin, said higher taxes are necessary to fund increases in
education and higher
education spending and safeguard health insurance exchanges in the face
of expected
federal rollbacks.
«New York's financially struggling hospitals were living austerely within the State's Medicaid
spending cap well before the recent avalanche
of Federal health care cuts, while other sectors, such as
education, have not been held to theirs,» said Kenneth Raske, president
of the Greater New York Hospital Association.
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Rich donors tend to be more supportive
of market - oriented reforms, such as charter schools and merit pay for teachers, but are less supportive
of paying more taxes for early childhood
education and
federal spending to improve schools.
Although the idea
of boosting STEM
education enjoys bipartisan support in Congress, Republicans have sharply criticized the tens
of billions more in overall
federal spending on
education during the Obama Administration.
State and
federal leaders in Germany have agreed on how to
spend billions
of extra euros on
education and research in the next 4 years.
The co-chair
of a new White House report on strengthening science
education says its recommendations will not add significantly to
federal spending.
But the fate
of that NASA - funded
education program and many others was very much up in the air until this week, when Congress passed a $ 1 trillion
spending bill to fund the
federal government through 30 September 2015.
NCLB is the latest version
of the Elementary and Secondary
Education Act of 1965, a federal law authorizing spending on programs to support K - 12 e
Education Act
of 1965, a
federal law authorizing
spending on programs to support K - 12
educationeducation.
Non-military
spending includes
federal funding for public
education, veterans» care, the National Institutes
of Health, Environmental Protection Agency, State Department and other programs means that the resulting balance.
Federal investments in scientific research and higher
education programs have been curtailed as discretionary
spending caps have been imposed in the absence
of significant reforms to mandatory
spending programs and taxation.
The
federal government, for example,
spends about $ 26 billion annually on programs and tax expenditures to support the care and
education of young children.
It is no surprise, then, that every Democratic candidate for the presidency in 2008 has called for increased
federal spending on
education, and that no Republican candidate (with the exception
of libertarian Ron Paul) has proposed a
spending cut.
The original legislation called for major increases in
education spending to offset the cost
of reaching NCLB's ambitious goals for student achievement, but
federal spending never reached the lofty levels outlined in the law.
An
Education Week Research Center analysis
of federal data shows
spending levels per student in most U.S. school districts for fiscal year 2013.
And at the end
of the day, the
federal government accounts for less than ten percent
of total
spending on
education, so any changes would be relatively modest.
President Ronald Reagan curtailed the share
of K — 12
education spending paid out
of the
federal treasury.
Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman, D - Conn., and other self - styled New Democrats released a legislative blueprint last week that would scale back the number
of federal education programs while raising overall
spending for them.
In addition to requiring more
spending for special -
education programs, the agreement reached in late July between the district and the
federal agency calls for the timely and appropriate placement
of some 3,500 students who are awaiting spaces in special -
education classes.
If government invested a similar percentage
of public K - 12
education spending, it would be
spending $ 17 billion per year on
education research and development, rather than the $ 770 million the
federal government now
spends (see figure).
The question at the heart
of federal education policy is what the
federal government ought to require to ensure that the money is well
spent.
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of School Reform Shifting to Teachers (12/17/09) Are Middle Schools or Middle Schoolers the Problem?
President Barack Obama, balancing his blueprint to recalibrate the nation's economy against a looming confrontation with Republicans over
federal spending, will use the issue
of education to help frame the budget debate.
The reality is that these kinds
of national results are so far removed from the regulatory minutiae
of federal education policy, and the meaning
of these test results can be so opaque, that everyone would be well - served if they
spent less time claiming this or that test result or graduation rate proved that a grand
federal agenda was the right one.
If the stubborn achievement gaps that exist in every state could prove a violation
of federal equal - protection rights, would
federal courts have to monitor every state's
education policies and
spending decisions?
If the skeptics are right, Wood writes, Common Core «will damage the quality
of K — 12
education for many students; strip parents and local communities
of meaningful influence over school curricula; centralize a great deal
of power in the hands
of federal bureaucrats and private interests; push for the aggregation and use
of large amounts
of personal data on students without the consent
of parents; usher in an era
of even more abundant and more intrusive standardized testing; and absorb enormous sums
of public funding that could be
spent to better effect on other aspects
of education.»
Making that adjustment, special
education services cost roughly $ 17.7 billion in 1977, when
federal protection for special
education began;
spending almost doubled to $ 34.3 billion by 2003 as the number
of students in special
education increased by 76 percent.
All levels
of government
spend a huge amount
of money on teachers» professional development; it's a mainstay
of federal education policy.
Its principal task: to distribute
federal funds to states and local school districts amounting to about 8 percent
of the total
spent nationally on
education.
During Bush's administration, expenditures from
federal coffers edged upward from 10 percent to 11 percent
of total
spending on K — 12
education (with the remainder
of the costs shared about equally by state and local governments).
This funding is on top
of the nearly $ 700 million the
federal government already
spends on science and math
education programs within the National...
A
federal «maintenance
of effort» (MOE) requirement in the Individuals With Disabilities Act (IDEA, the
federal special -
education law) that handcuffs states and districts by requiring that special - ed
spending never decline from one year to the next.