Latest update from CEF. Regarding the CR’s 0.496% cut: I think I’ve already mentioned (can’t remember for sure) that forward funded programs like AEFLA aren’t really affected, so it’s nothing for us to worry about. Sheryl provides a nice explanation below on why it does make a difference for those few programs that are not entirely forward funded, if you’re interested. Note again the CLASP forum on criminal justice reform and postsecondary education and training, mentioned in the last bullet. Jeff > Begin forwarded message: > > From: Sheryl Cohen <cohen@cef.org> > Subject: CEF Update 10.5.16 > Date: October 5, 2016 at 5:00:17 PM EDT > To: CEFMembersList <CEFMembersList@cef.org> > > > > Wednesday, October 5, 2016 > > Dear CEF Members: > > I. From the Hill > > · Continuing Resolution Rumors > With so much depending on the outcome of the election, it’s hard to predict the most likely outcome for Labor-HHS-ED funding. One scenario we’re hearing is that there will be another continuing resolution (CR) until early Spring (this is what conservative Republicans are pushing for) or for the full year. However, Democratic leadership remains adamant that they want the 2017 cycle completed before the 114th Congress adjourns. In the meantime, negotiations will first take place to harmonize House and Senate totals for each of the remaining 11 bills – the 302(b) allocation for each bill. During the congressional recess CEF will be working with officers and Hill Team leaders to meet with leadership and appropriations staff to continue conveying our message of increasing the federal education investment. > > II. Education Funding > > · Effect of the CR’s 0.496% across-the-board cut on 5 education programs > The continuing resolution (CR) extending fiscal year 2016 funding at current rates for the first 9 weeks of 2017 includes a 0.496% cut to all funding to keep the total under the defense and non-defense discretionary sequester caps. This cut does not have a real effect on most education programs because they are forward funded – that is, they receive their 2017 funds not at the beginning of the fiscal year in October but in the following July. (Most education programs thus use their 2017 funds for the 2017-2018 academic year.) This short-term CR will not still be in effect when these programs receive their funding in July, so they will get whatever level is provided by the full-year funding bill. > > However, five programs could feel the cut immediately because they get 2017 funding on October 1: Impact Aid, Title I, IDEA, teacher state grants, and career and technical state grants. The attached table shows the amount of the cut to each program on an annualized basis. > > Impact Aid feels the cut because it is current funded, not forward funded, so it gets and starts using its funding immediately at the start of the fiscal year. The four other programs use a combination of funding for two fiscal years that is all provided in the previous year’s appropriations bill. Thus, the 2016 appropriations bill provided them with a combination of 2016 forward funding (that they got in July) and 2017 advance funding (that they got on October 1) for this academic year. > > The Department of Education will reduce grants to these five programs by applying the across-the-board to the total amount appropriated in last year’s bill – both the 2016 and advance 2017 funding, since the CR maintains the total of funding provided in last year’s appropriations bill. If the eventual year-long funding bill for 2017 does not contain the across the board cut, ED would then make supplemental obligations that restore the amount that was cut up front. Thus, the effect on these five programs depends on how much of their yearly total is obligated to them between October 1 and December 9. In the case of Perkins career and technical state grants where all the advance funding is obligated on October 1, 32 of the 54 states got reduced grants (22 others did not because the cut would have dropped them below their 1998 funding level, which is a funding floor in the Act). > > > III. Upcoming CEF Dates > > · This Friday, October 7th, we will have our customary CEF meeting from 9-11am, hosted by NCSDAE at Hall of the States Building, Room 233-235, 444 North Capitol St NW, Washington, DC 20001. (After this week, there won’t be a Friday meeting until November 18.) Our speaker will be Katie Meyer, Policy Advisor for House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy. The first hour of this meeting will be devoted to a discussion with the website developer hired to revamp CEF’s site this fall. The website discussion will begin promptly at 9:00 a.m.. This is a great opportunity for members to provide input on what they would like and what they value most for the website. We encourage everyone to attend if possible, but if you can’t make it the call instructions are below. > > Call-in number: 1 (800) 371-9219; Conference ID: 9380459# > > · ACG-hosted Member Lunches > ACG is hosting its next member lunch on Wednesday, October 12, the third in a series of biweekly lunches for CEF members for the remainder of the fall. These will serve as a way for me, and the ACG team, to get to know each member more personally and what your specific issues are. Please sign up here: Member Lunches Sign Up <https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cef-member-lunches-tickets-27180617960> > > · If you haven’t filled out our survey about this year’s CEF Gala, please take a minute to do so here <https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/3PWB6TJ>. > > · REMINDER: Committee budget proposals are due October 15th! > > · NOMINATIONS: If you are interested, nominations for next year’s board are due by November 28 to CEF, emailed to Alex Hoffberg at Hoffberg@cef.org <mailto:Hoffberg@cef.org>. The election information and form is attached. > > > IV. Events > > · National Principals Month Hill briefing > Attached is a flyer for the National Principals Month October 13 Capitol Hill briefing, titled “Revolutionizing School Leadership Under ESSA,” which will take place from 1:00-2:30pm in B354 Rayburn and will also be livestreamed. Please register by Friday, October 7th. > > NCLD Being You Screening and Panel > The National Center for Learning Disabilities and Understood.org <http://understood.org/> are hosting a screening of Being You <http://www.roadtripnation.com/roadtrip/being-you> on Tuesday, October 18th from 6-8 pm at the National Press Club. Being You <http://www.roadtripnation.com/roadtrip/being-you> is a new documentary that follows three young adults with learning and attention issues as they travel around the country interviewing successful adults with similar issues. They will host a reception at 6 pm, the screening at 6:30 pm, and a Q&A at 7:30 pm. This link <https://www.eventbrite.com/e/understood-presents-being-you-a-roadtrip-nation-screening-tickets-27417642908> has registration information and more details. > > · Thirteenth Annual AERA Brown Lecture in Education Research > The AERA will hold a lecture, with a reception to follow, titled “Public Education and the Social Contract: Restoring the Promise in an Age of Diversity and Division” on October 20th at 6 pm. The event will be at 1300 Pennsylvania Ave NW. Read more and RSVP here <http://www.aera.net/Events-Meetings/Annual-Brown-Lecture-in-Education-Research>. > > · Center for Law and Social Policy forum > Center for Law and Social Policy will be discussing the connections between criminal justice reform and postsecondary education and training in a public forum, titled “Reconnecting Justice: Pathways to Effective Reentry through Education and Training,” on October 28 from 12 pm to 3 pm at FHI 360, Academy Hall, 1825 Connecticut Ave NW. This link <http://www.clasp.org/issues/postsecondary/pages/reconnecting-justice-pathways-to-effective-reentry-through-education-and-training.> has more information and links to register. > > > My best, > > Sheryl > > > Sheryl V. Cohen, Executive Director > > 1800 M Street, NW > Suite 500 South > Washington, DC 20036 > T: 202-327-8125 > cohen@cef.org <mailto:cohen@cef.org> > www.cef.org <http://www.cef.org/>