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.
Not exact matches
There's no ready estimate of how much districts spend
for extracurriculars: Districts account differently
for teachers» afterschool pay (it can be lumped in with merit pay, says Stephen Frank of
Education Resource Strategies),
whether they include team buses in the extracurricular budget, how much they depend on parents and booster clubs
for field maintenance and stage - set construction, if and how much they charge students to participate,
whether they use
federal Title I
funds for afterschool enrichment, and so on.
In 1972, when Congress debated
whether future
federal funding for higher
education should go directly to institutions or be channeled through students, the model of the GI Bill helped carry the day
for the latter approach, which was surely the right one.
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.
This analysis examines
whether the current mechanisms
for providing
federal education funding to disadvantaged children are effective and
whether the system works as originally intended.
With U.S. Secretary of
Education Betsy DeVos at the helm of a
federal initiative to spread private school choice even further, a new forum
for Education Next brings together experts to assess the research on these programs — a tax - credit -
funded scholarship in Florida and voucher programs in Indiana, Louisiana, and Ohio — and the implications
for whether and how states should design and oversee statewide choice programs.
Whether it be ESEA reauthorization,
funding for Federal education programs, charter schools and vouchers, standards, technology and e-rate, health, child nutrition and school safety, or many others, there is no shortage of
education issues being debated in the halls of Congress or among major decision - makers in Washington, DC.