Sentences with phrase «sequestration cuts to education»

The first sequestration cuts to education went into effect this school year, slashing approximately 5 percent from all education programs, including a loss of $ 726 million from Title I funding for disadvantaged students and $ 579 million from special education.

Not exact matches

Congress's much anticipated bipartisan spending bill partially restores funding to education programs that was cut in 2013 as part of sequestration, but it doesn't fully return funding to the presequestration levels of FY12.

Collectively, level funding through the appropriations process and the cuts of sequestration have exacerbated the need for school districts to raise taxes or use local budget dollars to cover an ever - growing share of the federal contribution to special education.

Sequestration will take effect in January 2013 unless Congress repeals it, making it crucial for educators to act now to prevent education spending from being cut by 8.4 percent, or about $ 4.1 billion.

The automatic cuts to education and many other federal programs, known as «sequestration,» were intended as an incentive for lawmakers to reach an agreement on lowering the federal budget deficit by $ 1.2 trillion, but were triggered when Congress failed to do so in late 2011.

Congress can act to repeal sequestration and pass a sensible solution that protects funding for programs like Title I, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, and the Perkins Career and Technical Education Act, but to help spur them to act, they need to hear from the people who will be most affected by the cuts.

Although Senate Democrats will not allow these cuts to take effect, the proposal demonstrates how House Republicans» intent to double down on sequestration and austerity measures will make increases to education funding exceedingly improbable.

Although the specific programmatic numbers still have to be negotiated, the deal will most likely prevent further education funding cuts, lift the devastating spending caps known as sequestration, and allow for potential targeted increases in education spending.

In its statement on the shutdown, ASCD emphasizes that although the shutdown furloughed U.S. Department of Education employees, disrupted responses to educators» technical assistance requests, and temporarily shut students out of Head Start services, those consequences pale in comparison to the damage caused by federal education budget cuts due to sequeEducation employees, disrupted responses to educators» technical assistance requests, and temporarily shut students out of Head Start services, those consequences pale in comparison to the damage caused by federal education budget cuts due to sequeeducation budget cuts due to sequestration.

Recent issues of Capitol Connection have reported on the potentially devastating effects of sequestration, the across - the - board cuts to education and other federal programs set in motion by the congressional budget impasse last fall.

The deal restores 87 percent of sequestration's cuts overall, but it is too soon to say how much of that funding will be directed to education programs.

Urge your federal lawmakers to stop sequestration and halt further education funding cuts before our nation's students are forced to pay the price for Congress's inaction and inability to compromise.

The budget fails to specify how those cuts would be apportioned, but the Committee for Education Funding estimates that if they were applied proportionately across the agencies, funding for the Department of Education would be reduced by $ 7.7 billion on top of the $ 2.5 billion in FY13 sequestration cuts.

The U.S. Department of Education provided some relief Monday to the collective anxiety building among school administrators over the sequestration cuts that might be triggered come January.

Sequestration: What Southern California Stands to Lose The Southland is bracing for massive cuts in federal spending at the end of the week, with education and airport officials in particular worried about the impact of the impending reductions.