Sorry that it's has been so long between updates. Hope this one is helpful. Let me know what I’m missing! - Jeff FY 2019 Funding The FY 2019 House Labor-HHS-Education funding bill was released yesterday, and it’s being marked up by the Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations subcommittee this morning. The bill increases funding for the Department of Education by $43 million over the FY 2018 level, to a total of $70.9 billion. (CEF notes that amounts to a whopping 0.1% increase). To everyone’s relief, the bill’s total allocation was not cut to offset the extra $1.1 billion in funding for the VA that was included in the appropriations package the House passed last week. (No need to get into that now, but for the record, I’ve attached the letter CEF sent up to the Hill earlier this week about our concern that they might offset this increase by cutting the allocation to the Labor-HHS-Education bill. Thankfully, they didn’t.) Here is the bill text: https://docs.house.gov/meetings/AP/AP07/20180615/108431/BILLS-115-SC-AP-FY2019-LaborHHS-LaborBill.pdf <https://docs.house.gov/meetings/AP/AP07/20180615/108431/BILLS-115-SC-AP-FY2019-LaborHHS-LaborBill.pdf> The text does not specify funding down to the program level for very many education programs, so we don’t know exactly the amount being recommended for WIOA Title II or other adult education-related programs. But if you look at it, you will see that career and technical education + adult education is set at $1.9 billion, which is up $115 million from FY 2018. Again, it’s not clear how the increase is distributed, but this is at least a hopeful sign. I’ve attached CEF’s table, which has funding levels only for the programs that are specified in the text, or that they have been able to infer from account totals (inferred levels are highlighted in light blue). We won’t know all the program levels until we see the the committee’s programmatic table. CEF reports that the late scuttlebutt is that the bill could be marked up by the full Appropriations Committee next Wednesday. Perkins/CTE The Senate HELP Committee plans to markup a bill to reauthorize the Perkins Career and Technical Education Act on Wednesday, June 20th. See: https://www.help.senate.gov/hearings/s3029-s1222-s808-s3039-s___-a-bill-to-reauthorize-the-carl-d-perkins-career-and-technical-education-act-and-nominations <https://www.help.senate.gov/hearings/s3029-s1222-s808-s3039-s___-a-bill-to-reauthorize-the-carl-d-perkins-career-and-technical-education-act-and-nominations> I haven’t seen any text yet, but if/when I do I’ll pass it along. Of course, others on this list who follow this more closely may see it before I do, so feel free to pass it along in case I miss it. Sens. Enzi and Casey have been leading the negotiations in the Senate ever since that Perkins/CTE reauthorization bill passed the House last year. Sen. Alexander said in a statement reported by Politico yesterday that they "have been making good progress and I hope the bill the committee considers next week is bipartisan.” We asked a staffer from Sen. Casey’s office (who came to speak at CEF’s Friday meeting last week) about the negotiations and she was reluctant to give any details. That’s usually a sign that the sides are getting close to an agreement… And, for what its worth… https://twitter.com/IvankaTrump/status/1006958543508070400 <https://twitter.com/IvankaTrump/status/1006958543508070400> As per usual, whenever there is pending action on this reauthorization, Senator Reed re-introduces his adult learner-focused CTE bill — co-sponsored again this time by Sen. Baldwin — called the Career and Technical Education for Adult Learners Act (CTE for ALL Act), which would amend the Perkins Act with language providing greater support adult learners to access career and technical education. Earlier, Deborah sent an email noting NCL continuing support for this bill. A couple of years ago, NCL policy co-chair Judy Mortrude posted a blog piece for CLASP that summarizes the key provisions (https://www.clasp.org/blog/senate-introduces-amendment-recognizing-adult-learner-career-and-technical-education <https://www.clasp.org/blog/senate-introduces-amendment-recognizing-adult-learner-career-and-technical-education>): > The CTE for ALL Act will: > Ensure that programs funded under the Perkins Act are aligned with adult education programs and industry sector partnerships authorized under the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act. > Promote the evidence based educational strategy Integrated Education and Training. > Include adult education in state plans for career and technical education. > Allow states to develop core performance indicators for adult learners that align with performance indicators in the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act. > Encourage a greater emphasis on work experiences as part of career and technical education programs. > Clarify that adult education providers that also offer career and technical education programs are eligible to receive funds under the Perkins Act. High Education Act (HEA) According to Politico, House Majority Whip Steve Scalise conducted a whip count earlier this week to determine if the Republican HEA reauthorization bill (the PROSPER Act) had enough support to move forward. There hasn’t been any movement on it since December, when the education committee approved the bill on a party-line vote. As of today, it sounds like they have determined that there is not enough support right now to move it forward, or anytime soon. From Inside Higher Ed, yesterday: > No observers were ready to officially declare the bill dead without details from Republican leaders on support within the caucus. But as Congress enters the summer months without any sign of a floor vote, the chances of the legislation moving forward this year appear increasingly unlikely. Nearly everyone I know in the higher education community hates the PROPSER Act. And, even if the PROSPER Act were to pass the House, the chances that the Senate would take up this bill have always been close to zero. Immigration/DACA House Republican leaders plan bring two separate immigration bills to the floor next week, which will effectively stop the effort by a group of moderate Republicans and Democrats to force a vote on their bipartisan effort to codify DACA via the discharge petition process. (I won’t get into this complicated maneuver here — you can look it up if you’re interested…) They needed 218 signatures to circumvent leadership and force a vote over the leadership’s objections. They didn’t quite get enough. The first bill is the Securing America’s Future (SAF) Act, which has been kicking around for a while — introduced by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Goodlatte and supported by immigration "hard-liners." The second bill was put together recently by Republican leadership — the draft was just released yesterday. It is supposed to represent compromise between Republican moderates and those hardliners. The Migration Policy Institute (an NCL member organization) has a commentary on these bills here: https://www.migrationpolicy.org/news/house-bills-would-largely-dismantle-asylum-system-us-mexico-border <https://www.migrationpolicy.org/news/house-bills-would-largely-dismantle-asylum-system-us-mexico-border> More here: http://thehill.com/homenews/house/392371-few-voice-support-after-house-gop-releases-293-page-daca-bill Let us know if you have any additions, comments, questions, or clarifications.

Quick follow-up on FY 2019 funding: A friend of NCL and reliable source has informed me that according to Cole and DeLauro offices, adult ed is level funded in the House bill discussed below. Jeff > On Jun 15, 2018, at 11:24 AM, Jeff Carter <jcarter@literacypolicy.org <mailto:jcarter@literacypolicy.org>> wrote: > > Sorry that it's has been so long between updates. Hope this one is helpful. Let me know what I’m missing! - Jeff > > FY 2019 Funding > > The FY 2019 House Labor-HHS-Education funding bill was released yesterday, and it’s being marked up by the Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations subcommittee this morning. The bill increases funding for the Department of Education by $43 million over the FY 2018 level, to a total of $70.9 billion. (CEF notes that amounts to a whopping 0.1% increase). To everyone’s relief, the bill’s total allocation was not cut to offset the extra $1.1 billion in funding for the VA that was included in the appropriations package the House passed last week. (No need to get into that now, but for the record, I’ve attached the letter CEF sent up to the Hill earlier this week about our concern that they might offset this increase by cutting the allocation to the Labor-HHS-Education bill. Thankfully, they didn’t.) > > Here is the bill text: > https://docs.house.gov/meetings/AP/AP07/20180615/108431/BILLS-115-SC-AP-FY2019-LaborHHS-LaborBill.pdf <https://docs.house.gov/meetings/AP/AP07/20180615/108431/BILLS-115-SC-AP-FY2019-LaborHHS-LaborBill.pdf> > > The text does not specify funding down to the program level for very many education programs, so we don’t know exactly the amount being recommended for WIOA Title II or other adult education-related programs. But if you look at it, you will see that career and technical education + adult education is set at $1.9 billion, which is up $115 million from FY 2018. Again, it’s not clear how the increase is distributed, but this is at least a hopeful sign. > > I’ve attached CEF’s table, which has funding levels only for the programs that are specified in the text, or that they have been able to infer from account totals (inferred levels are highlighted in light blue). We won’t know all the program levels until we see the the committee’s programmatic table. > > CEF reports that the late scuttlebutt is that the bill could be marked up by the full Appropriations Committee next Wednesday. > > Perkins/CTE > > The Senate HELP Committee plans to markup a bill to reauthorize the Perkins Career and Technical Education Act on Wednesday, June 20th. See: > https://www.help.senate.gov/hearings/s3029-s1222-s808-s3039-s___-a-bill-to-reauthorize-the-carl-d-perkins-career-and-technical-education-act-and-nominations <https://www.help.senate.gov/hearings/s3029-s1222-s808-s3039-s___-a-bill-to-reauthorize-the-carl-d-perkins-career-and-technical-education-act-and-nominations> > > I haven’t seen any text yet, but if/when I do I’ll pass it along. Of course, others on this list who follow this more closely may see it before I do, so feel free to pass it along in case I miss it. > > Sens. Enzi and Casey have been leading the negotiations in the Senate ever since that Perkins/CTE reauthorization bill passed the House last year. Sen. Alexander said in a statement reported by Politico yesterday that they "have been making good progress and I hope the bill the committee considers next week is bipartisan.” We asked a staffer from Sen. Casey’s office (who came to speak at CEF’s Friday meeting last week) about the negotiations and she was reluctant to give any details. That’s usually a sign that the sides are getting close to an agreement… > > And, for what its worth… > https://twitter.com/IvankaTrump/status/1006958543508070400 <https://twitter.com/IvankaTrump/status/1006958543508070400> > As per usual, whenever there is pending action on this reauthorization, Senator Reed re-introduces his adult learner-focused CTE bill — co-sponsored again this time by Sen. Baldwin — called the Career and Technical Education for Adult Learners Act (CTE for ALL Act), which would amend the Perkins Act with language providing greater support adult learners to access career and technical education. Earlier, Deborah sent an email noting NCL continuing support for this bill. > > A couple of years ago, NCL policy co-chair Judy Mortrude posted a blog piece for CLASP that summarizes the key provisions (https://www.clasp.org/blog/senate-introduces-amendment-recognizing-adult-learner-career-and-technical-education <https://www.clasp.org/blog/senate-introduces-amendment-recognizing-adult-learner-career-and-technical-education>): > >> The CTE for ALL Act will: >> Ensure that programs funded under the Perkins Act are aligned with adult education programs and industry sector partnerships authorized under the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act. >> Promote the evidence based educational strategy Integrated Education and Training. >> Include adult education in state plans for career and technical education. >> Allow states to develop core performance indicators for adult learners that align with performance indicators in the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act. >> Encourage a greater emphasis on work experiences as part of career and technical education programs. >> Clarify that adult education providers that also offer career and technical education programs are eligible to receive funds under the Perkins Act. > > High Education Act (HEA) > > According to Politico, House Majority Whip Steve Scalise conducted a whip count earlier this week to determine if the Republican HEA reauthorization bill (the PROSPER Act) had enough support to move forward. There hasn’t been any movement on it since December, when the education committee approved the bill on a party-line vote. > > As of today, it sounds like they have determined that there is not enough support right now to move it forward, or anytime soon. From Inside Higher Ed, yesterday: > >> No observers were ready to officially declare the bill dead without details from Republican leaders on support within the caucus. But as Congress enters the summer months without any sign of a floor vote, the chances of the legislation moving forward this year appear increasingly unlikely. > > Nearly everyone I know in the higher education community hates the PROPSER Act. And, even if the PROSPER Act were to pass the House, the chances that the Senate would take up this bill have always been close to zero. > > Immigration/DACA > > House Republican leaders plan bring two separate immigration bills to the floor next week, which will effectively stop the effort by a group of moderate Republicans and Democrats to force a vote on their bipartisan effort to codify DACA via the discharge petition process. (I won’t get into this complicated maneuver here — you can look it up if you’re interested…) They needed 218 signatures to circumvent leadership and force a vote over the leadership’s objections. They didn’t quite get enough. > The first bill is the Securing America’s Future (SAF) Act, which has been kicking around for a while — introduced by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Goodlatte and supported by immigration "hard-liners." > The second bill was put together recently by Republican leadership — the draft was just released yesterday. It is supposed to represent compromise between Republican moderates and those hardliners. > The Migration Policy Institute (an NCL member organization) has a commentary on these bills here: > https://www.migrationpolicy.org/news/house-bills-would-largely-dismantle-asylum-system-us-mexico-border <https://www.migrationpolicy.org/news/house-bills-would-largely-dismantle-asylum-system-us-mexico-border> > > More here: > http://thehill.com/homenews/house/392371-few-voice-support-after-house-gop-releases-293-page-daca-bill <http://thehill.com/homenews/house/392371-few-voice-support-after-house-gop-releases-293-page-daca-bill> > > Let us know if you have any additions, comments, questions, or clarifications. > > > <06.13.18 oppose Labor-H 302b cut in House - FINAL.pdf> > <06.14.18 CEF's Preliminary House FY 2019 Funding Table.pdf> > <REED 2018 AEG17041 copy.pdf> > <Reed Bill Summary CTE for All Act-2.docx> > _______________________________________________ > National Coalition for Literacy Members mailing list > Members@lists.national-coalition-literacy.org <mailto:Members@lists.national-coalition-literacy.org> > To unsubscribe: http://lists.national-coalition-literacy.org/mailman/listinfo/members_lists.national-coalition-literacy.org