Here is today’s CEF update. IMPORTANT: For those of you whose organizations are not CEF members themselves, but are members of NCL and would like to come to the Presidential Forum, (which is the day after our meeting, also here in D.C.), please DO NOT use the RSVP link below — send me your name(s) and I will RSVP you as a guest of NCL. I will be able to register more than three guests, so don’t worry about that limitation. For those of you outside of D.C. who will not be here, I’m really pleased that we’ve got it set up so that you can watch it remotely and participate via twitter (details below). I was at the OMB meeting Joel mentions below. Just to explain what the “parity between defense and NDD” means - they are continuing to stress, as they did last year, that, as long as their are caps in place, any increases or cuts to defense spending should be equal to those on the non-defense discretionary side. In other words, that they shouldn’t increase defense spending while cutting NDD. I think it’s useful to remember that the Administration is not going to have as much influence on the appropriations negotiations this year as it typically would since it is in its final year, but it seems to me that the WH could and will help by continuing to push that message. Other stuff: The Senate HELP committee is holding a hearing on Dyslexia next week (item #5). I have not read the HHS/ED Policy Statement on family engagement noted in item #7 below, but curious if anyone on this list has and if there is anything in it that might be of interest. Or at least engaging. Jeff > Begin forwarded message: > > > > > THANKS TO OUR ELEVEN SPONSORS: > American Alliance of Museums (AAM), Commission on Adult Basic Education (COABE), ISTE, NACAC, NAfME, National PTA, ProLiteracy, Scholastic, SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition), Taylor Strategies, and Washington Partners > > 1. Registration is open and you’re invited to the CEF Presidential Forum! CEF members please RSVP here <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1A_njoY26fe2HB9ra2PL6uqw7cbKTumY4wqGV7c04LL8/viewform> for up to 3 guests to attend the Presidential Forum. Sponsors, please RSVP here <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1BYHBMxdggcbXIjw2-psZP2UA9qEQ5Bh5zPe2MyDtYdk/viewform> for up to 5 guests to attend the Presidential Forum. For the sponsors who are also CEF members, please do not also RSVP using the general CEF member form. > > When: May 26th, 2016 from 9AM-12PM > Where: Newseum located at 555 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington, DC 20001, 7th Floor Knight Conference Center > Candy Crowley, award-winning journalist and former Chief Political Correspondent for CNN, will moderate this event. The CEF Presidential Forum is designed as an opportunity for Presidential Candidates/campaigns to highlight and discuss their education policy agendas––including but not limited to education funding––as part of a day looking to emphasize education as a critical domestic policy. > The 2016 CEF Presidential Forum agenda includes: > Breakfast and Networking: 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM > Moderated Forum: 10:15 AM – 11:30 AM > Closing: 11:45 AM – 12:00 PM > Can’t make it? Not to worry––this event will be live streamed and a link will be shared in the coming weeks. In the meantime, CEF members, you have the opportunity to submit your questions at SubmitQ@cef.org <mailto:SubmitQ@cef.org> and tweet your questions via twitter using #CEFpresForum. > Questions? Ask Advocacy Committee Co-Chair Ally Bernstein <mailto:ally@jbernsteinstrategy.com>. > 2. Reminder – No CEF MEETING TOMORROW. Click here for the updated schedule <https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B19p6j32JwToZkYwbERyWmpCdXM/view?usp=sharing>. > > 3. FY 2017 Budget/Appropriations: > a. From all indications, the House Budget Resolution is dead. Reports are that it will not be brought up on the House floor next week (which is opioid abuse reduction week). The House will be able to start considering appropriations bills the week of May 16 in the absence of a Budget Resolution. That week is also when the House will consider the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). > > b. I expect the House Appropriations Committee tomorrow to announce its markups for next week. > > c. White House principles: Several CEF folks attended a meeting Tuesday night with OMB. Not much new, though OMB reiterated the White House priorities for FY 2017 appropriations: > · Parity between defense and NDD > · No ideological “poison pill” riders > · Adequate funding for Administration priorities > One concern on defense funding is that the House NDAA bill, marked up at the end of April, would boost base defense budget needs by $18 billion beyond its current spending cap by shifting funds from the Overseas Contingency Operations account, the emergency war fund. The bill made room for the extra base defense spending by "prorating" the OCO account, with the intention of forcing the next administration to submit a supplemental request for the wars in early 2017. In fact, the legislation sets an expiration date for the war money of April 30, 2017, which essentially makes a supplemental next spring inevitable. > The White House has called this maneuver “grossly irresponsible.” > > On the other side, Rep. Jim Jordan, the Ohio Republican who chairs the conservative House Freedom Caucus, told CQ the OCO plan was "problematic." "If you're going to increase spending for the military, which we want to do, you've got to reduce it elsewhere," said in an interview. “You’ve got to change this dynamic, this process, that is, defense goes up, nondefense also has to go up, that's ridiculous," Jordan said, adding he anticipates Democrats will demand a similar increase in nondefense programs. "In fact, I would argue just the opposite, defense goes up, and nondefense should come down." > 4. Balanced Budget Amendment: Thank you to everyone who joined yesterday’s meeting on the threat of a constitutional balanced budget amendment (BBA) at the federal and state levels. > Attached are electronic copies of the materials that were distributed: > · A factsheet on a ConCon/BBA > · A factsheet on 2017 state threats and opportunities (confidential – please do not share) > · A Washington Post op-ed from CBPP’s president, Robert Greenstein, on a BBA > · A letter signed by 272 national groups opposing a BBA (please let us know if you would like to be added) > · CBPP’s new paper on how the Senate Republican BBA would require extreme budget cuts > · Talking points on the dangers of the Senate Republican BBA (confidential – please do not share) > We hope that you find these materials to be useful in your efforts. > CBPP is pulling together a list of groups who can help out in the target states listed on the 2017 threats and opportunities document. If your group has capacity to help in those target states, or has relationships with influential leaders, please contact Becca Segal at rsegal@cbpp.org <mailto:rsegal@cbpp.org>. > 5. Dyslexia Hearing: The Senate HELP committee next week is holding a hearing, Understanding Dyslexia: The Intersection of Scientific Research & Education <http://www.help.senate.gov/hearings/understanding-dyslexia-the-intersection-of-scientific-research-and-education>. From that link you can see the list of the six witnesses. > > 6. ESSA FAQs: Yesterday, ED issued updated ESSA Transition FAQs <http://www2.ed.gov/policy/elsec/leg/essa/faq/essatransitionfaqs050316.pdf>. It covers: > a. General guidance on ESSA transition > b. Guidance regarding ESEA flexibility > c. Transition guidance regarding Title I programs and requirements > d. Guidance regarding Title II, Part A programs and requirements > e. Guidance regarding Title III, Part A programs and requirements > f. Transition guidance on Mathematics And Science Partnership Grants > g. Transition guidance for Indian Education Formula Grants to Local Educational Agencies under Title VI, Part A > > 7. Policy Statement On Family Engagement: The U.S. Departments of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Education (ED) jointly issued a policy statement <http://www2.ed.gov/about/inits/ed/earlylearning/files/policy-statement-on-family-engagement.pdf> on the implementation of effective family engagement practices from the early years to the early grades. Also see: Executive Summary for the Policy Statement on Family Engagement: From The Early Years to The Early Grades <http://www2.ed.gov/about/inits/ed/earlylearning/files/policy-statement-on-family-engagement.pdf>. > > 8. Burr/Casey Introduce Boost Saving for College Act: Last week “Senators Richard Burr (R-NC) and Bob Casey (D-PA) introduced the Boost Saving for College Act <http://www.burr.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/boost%20saving%20for%20college%20act.pdf>, which will enhance 529 college savings accounts to help more American families save for college. This legislation would provide a tax credit to low-income and middle-income families who might not ordinarily save for college, encourage employers to match the college savings of their employees, allow savings that aren’t needed for college to be rolled over into a Roth IRA for retirement, and enable families with a disabled child to rollover a 529 account into an ABLE account.” > See: Sens. Burr, Casey Introduce Bill to Make College More Affordable by Helping Families Save <https://www.burr.senate.gov/press/releases/sens-burr-casey-introduce-bill-to-make-college-more-affordable-by-helping-families-save>. > > 9. U.S. Commission on Civil Rights briefing: The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights announced today that it will hold a public briefing on Friday, May 20, 2016, to examine the funding of K-12 education and how the inequitable distribution of these funds negatively and disproportionately impact the educational opportunities of low-income and minority students. The briefing will also address how the practice of underfunding public schools has exacerbated the academic achievement gap in an era where the nation's most vulnerable children are increasingly educated in highly segregated and under-resourced schools. > > See attached for more details. > > 10. Key Committee Changes: We’ve updated our list of key Congressional committees for CEF <https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B19p6j32JwToTzNzQW5Ub2t0RlE/view?usp=sharing> showing which members won't be back in the next Congress due to retirements, running for other office, or defeated in a primary. > > 11. Donald Trump and Education: Now that Mr. Trump is the presumptive Republican nominee for president, Politics K12 ran a piece on his positions (or the lack thereof) on education: But Will It Be Amazing? What Donald Trump Has Said About Education <http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/campaign-k-12/2016/05/donald_trump_education_policy_review.html?utm_source=feedblitz&utm_medium=FeedBlitzRss&utm_campaign=campaignk-12>. > > 12. Student Debt Doesn't Limit Home Ownership: Brookings has released a paper, The dividing line between haves and have-nots in home ownership: Education, not student debt <http://www.brookings.edu/research/reports/2016/05/03-dividing-line-between-haves-have-nots-home-ownership-education-not-student-debt-dynarski>, that finds “The striking gap in homeownership is not between college-educated people who did and did not borrow, but between those with and without a college education.” > > > > 13. More on Student Debt: The Wall Street Journal on Monday ran this story, “Student Debt Is About to Set Another Record, But the Picture Isn’t All Bad <http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2016/05/02/student-debt-is-about-to-set-another-record-but-the-picture-isnt-all-bad/#:lL7yaxteccJ0VA>”. > “In other words, new college grads have been finding jobs with salaries a decent amount above what they owe in student debt. Mr. Kantrowitz says that means most graduates’ debt burdens are “manageable.” That is, they should be able to pay them off within 10 years, with money left over to cover all other bills.” > > 14. New Report on Crime and Safety in America's School and Colleges: NCES this week released Indicators of School Crime and Safety 2015 <http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2016079>. > “The report shows that African American and Hispanic students are suspended more often than their peers. In 2011-2012, 6.4 percent of all public school students received an out-of-school suspension. The rate for African American (15.4 percent) and Hispanic (5.9 percent) students was higher than it was for other racial or ethnic subgroups, such as White (4.3 percent) and Asian (1.5 percent) students. > > “The new report shows a drop in the number of criminal incidents at postsecondary institutions but reflects an increase in reported sexual assaults on college campuses. In 2013, there were 27,600 criminal incidents on campuses at postsecondary institutions that were reported to police and security agencies, representing a 34 percent decrease from incidents reported in 2001 (41,600 incidents). 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