Sheryl Cohen of CEF sent around a PDF of the 652-page Senate continuing resolution/budget deal legislation (attached), which includes some emergency funding for certain education-related programs. Because they are classified as supplemental emergency funding, these increases won’t be counted under the caps. Funding amounts for other programs (like adult ed) won’t be coming until after this bill passes and they can sit down and write an omnibus spending bill funding the whole government for the remainder of the fiscal year. For the curious, here are those programs that got emergency funding (list via CEF, bold highlights are mine): Department of Education: $2.7 billion for hurricane education recovery expenses. Funds remain available through September 2022 for “assistance in meeting the educational needs of individuals affected by a covered disaster or emergency” (see details of some set-asides and allowable uses on page 71-9) Head Start: $650 million for expenses to recover from the hurricanes (page 67) Dislocated workers in hurricane-affected areas: $100 million (Page 62) Job Corps centers in Puerto Rico: $30.9 million (page 63) The bill also provides emergency flexibility with some Title I WIOA money — specifically, it allows a local workforce board in one of the areas affected by Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, or Maria to request a transfer funds from Youth Workforce Investment activities and into adult employment and training activities or the Dislocated Worker program. (See page 64.) The bill also includes $182 billion for the decennial census. The bill also addresses the debt ceiling — it raises the government’s debt ceiling by simply suspending it until March 1, 2019. Makes you wonder why we have the stupid debt ceiling to begin with! The bill extends the existing continuing resolution until March 23. This should be enough time to put together and enact an an omnibus appropriations package. (I’ve been consistently told by staff that it would take 4-6 weeks once a cap deal was made to deliver an omnibus.) Next Steps The House is still working to gather the support needed to pass the bill. As someone said the other day, "this is a bipartisan bill with bipartisan opposition.” There are objections by some Republicans concerned about the spending increases and some Democrats who were fooled into thinking hoped that an immigration deal would be part of the package. Current CR expires tonight at midnight. By all accounts I’m seeing in the press, there are enough votes to get the thing passed in time. And Finally… Our guest tomorrow at CEF's Friday meeting is Bryce McKibben, a member of the Senate HELP Committee's Democratic staff. Let me know if you have any questions you’d like me to ask him. Jeff Jeff Carter Cell: (202) 374-4387 | @jeffcrtr Senior Policy Advisor National Coalition for Literacy www.national-coalition-literacy.org <http://www.national-coalition-literacy.org/> jcarter@literacypolicy.org <mailto:jcarter@literacypolicy.org> President, Committee for Education Funding Executive Director Physicians for Social Responsibility 1111 14th St, NW, Suite 700 Washington, DC 20005 www.psr.org <http://www.psr.org/> | jcarter@psr.org <mailto:jcarter@psr.org>

- Department of Education: $2.7 billion for hurricane education
recovery expenses.  Funds remain available through September 2022
for “assistance in meeting the educational needs of individuals affected by
a covered disaster or emergency” (see details of some set-asides and
allowable uses on page 71-9)
- Head Start: $650 million for expenses to recover from the hurricanes
(page 67)
- *Dislocated workers in hurricane-affected areas: $100 million (Page
62)*
- Job Corps centers in Puerto Rico: $30.9 million (page 63)

Dear Friends, Please see the attached announcement about the upcoming US Senate round table on technology for correctional education on February 26th from 10 am until 2 pm. For those of you interested in using digital resources in adult and correctional education we are doing a 4 hour set of presentations and demos for Senate and House staff and folks involved in criminal justice advocacy and reform. For any adult educator working in state and local jails or prisons or secure juvenile facilities we will be highlighting cutting edge technology with instructional content ranging from basic literacy through college along with career development. These projects are often low or no-cost because of the many open source resources available. Already we have gotten the attention of the US Department of Justice and the federal Bureau of Prisons. Senator Brian Schatz (D-HI) is the Senate host for this event. We hope you will be able to disseminate the attachment and that we will see a number of you at the event. Thank you for all you do, *Steve* Stephen J Steurer, PhD Reentry/Education Advocate Sjsteurer@gmail.com 443-474-1196 <(443)%20474-1196> tel 2018-02-08 18:48 GMT-05:00 Jeff Carter <jcarter@literacypolicy.org>: > Sheryl Cohen of CEF sent around a PDF of the 652-page Senate continuing > resolution/budget deal legislation (attached), which includes some > emergency funding for certain education-related programs. Because they are > classified as supplemental emergency funding, these increases won’t be > counted under the caps. Funding amounts for other programs (like adult ed) > won’t be coming until after this bill passes and they can sit down and > write an omnibus spending bill funding the whole government for > the remainder of the fiscal year. > > For the curious, here are those programs that got emergency funding (list > via CEF, bold highlights are mine): > > - Department of Education: $2.7 billion for hurricane education > recovery expenses. Funds remain available through September 2022 > for “assistance in meeting the educational needs of individuals affected by > a covered disaster or emergency” (see details of some set-asides and > allowable uses on page 71-9) > - Head Start: $650 million for expenses to recover from the hurricanes > (page 67) > - *Dislocated workers in hurricane-affected areas: $100 million (Page > 62)* > - Job Corps centers in Puerto Rico: $30.9 million (page 63) > > The bill also provides emergency flexibility with *some* Title I WIOA > money — specifically, it allows a local workforce board in one of the areas > affected by Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, or Maria to request a transfer funds > from Youth Workforce Investment activities and into adult employment and > training activities or the Dislocated Worker program. (See page 64.) > > The bill also includes $182 billion for the decennial census. > > The bill also addresses the debt ceiling — it raises the government’s debt > ceiling by simply suspending it until March 1, 2019. Makes you wonder why > we have the stupid debt ceiling to begin with! > > The bill extends the existing continuing resolution until March 23. This > should be enough time to put together and enact an an omnibus > appropriations package. (I’ve been consistently told by staff that it would > take 4-6 weeks once a cap deal was made to deliver an omnibus.) > > *Next Steps* > > The House is still working to gather the support needed to pass the bill. > As someone said the other day, "this is a bipartisan bill with bipartisan > opposition.” There are objections by some Republicans concerned about the > spending increases and some Democrats who were fooled into thinking hoped > that an immigration deal would be part of the package. Current CR expires > tonight at midnight. By all accounts I’m seeing in the press, there are > enough votes to get the thing passed in time. > > *And Finally…* > > Our guest tomorrow at CEF's Friday meeting is Bryce McKibben, a member of > the Senate HELP Committee's Democratic staff. Let me know if you have any > questions you’d like me to ask him. > > Jeff > > *Jeff Carter* > Cell: (202) 374-4387 | @jeffcrtr > > > Senior Policy Advisor > National Coalition for Literacy > www.national-coalition-literacy.org > jcarter@literacypolicy.org > President, Committee for Education Funding > > > Executive Director > Physicians for Social Responsibility > 1111 14th St, NW, Suite 700 > Washington, DC 20005 > www.psr.org | jcarter@psr.org > > > > _______________________________________________ > National Coalition for Literacy Members mailing list > Members@lists.national-coalition-literacy.org > To unsubscribe: http://lists.national-coalition-literacy.org/ > mailman/listinfo/members_lists.national-coalition-literacy.org > -- *Steve* Stephen J Steurer, PhD Reentry/Education Advocate cell:443-474-1196 sjsteurer@gmail.com *"Education Reduces Recidivism"* *CURE National* www.curenational.org