NCL Members, Here is Joel’s update from yesterday, plus a few of my own notes. The House Budget Committee released its committee report on its FY 2017 Budget Resolution, and Joel has provided a smart of education-related issues. If you’ve been following any of the news on this, these additional details should be of interest and/or depressing. If you want to go beyond Joel’s summary attached, here is a link to the entire report: https://www.congress.gov/114/crpt/hrpt470/CRPT-114hrpt470.pdf Here are a couple of other proposed program eliminations/changes I spotted that may be of interest: p. 120 Eliminate the Corporation for National and Community Service. Programs administered out of this agency provide funding to students and others who work in certain areas of public service. Participation in these programs is not based on need. The United States has a long history of robust volunteer work and other efforts that provide services to communities and individuals. Americans’ generosity in contributing their time and money to these efforts is extraordinary and should be encouraged. The Federal Government already has aid programs focused on low-income students, and the oxymoronic act of paying ‘‘volunteers’’ is not a core Federal responsibility, especially in times of high deficits and debt. Further, it is much more efficient to have such efforts operate at the State and local level by the community that receives the benefit of the service. p. 148 Apply Work Requirements to Medicaid. The budget proposes to advance a work requirement for all able-bodied adults who are enrolled in Medicaid, modeled after the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program. This proposal would ensure that an ablebodied, working-age adult could qualify for Medicaid only if he or she were actively seeking employment or participating in an education or training program. (my emphasis) We’ve been down this road before (UI extension, for example, a few years ago): Republicans eager to attach or expand a work requirement as a condition of receiving a benefit, and they include a provision that exempts people from the work requirement if enrolled in an education or training program — but seemingly oblivious to the fact that there aren’t enough of such program for people who want them now, let alone the expanded demand if such provision was enacted. Anybody else read the report and have a comment? Jeff Jeff Carter — President, National Coalition for Literacy http://national-coalition-literacy.org General Contact Info — jcarter@literacypolicy.org or jeffcrtr@gmail.org Personal Twitter: @jeffcrtr | literacypolicy.org Cell: (202) 374-4387 > Begin forwarded message: > > From: Joel Packer <jpacker@cef.org> > Subject: Quick Wednesday Update > Date: March 23, 2016 at 6:49:54 PM EDT > To: Joel Packer <jpacker@cef.org> > > > ​The House Budget Committee released its committee report <http://budget.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=394168> on its FY 2017 Budget Resolution. It provides some additional details on the education cuts assumed in the Budget. See attached for a CEF document that excerpts and summarizes those cuts. In addition to what we knew (elimination of Pell mandatory, freezing Pell max at FY 16 level for next ten years, elimination of in-school interest subsidy, roll back of IBR), we now also know that it: > ​Rolls back certain recent expansions to need analysis > Considers setting a maximum-income cap for Pell > Eliminates Pell eligibility for less-than-half-time students > Eliminates Administrative Fees Paid to Schools in the Campus-Based Student-Aid Programs > Eliminates funding for The Institute of Museum and Library Services. > Eliminates funding for the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. > Recommends ending the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program and the Teacher Loan Forgiveness Program. > Phases out Eligibility for TEACH Grants > Makes a variety of changes to GI Bill education benefits. > 2. ​The House Appropriations Subcommittee on Military Construction/VA today reported out its FY 2017 bill <http://appropriations.house.gov/calendar/eventsingle.aspx?EventID=394471>. That bill may get taken up by the full committee on April 13. However, According to CQ, "House Appropriations Chairman Harold Rogers said Wednesday he won't give subcommittee chairmen "notional" discretionary allocations for their individual bills before the spring recess, leaving staff somewhat in the dark as members head home." > See: Appropriators Head Home in the Dark on Spending Levels <http://www.cq.com/doc/news-4858475?2&srcpage=news&srcsec=cqn>. > > 3. No CEF Meeting this Friday! > > > > Joel Packer > CEF Executive Director > JPacker@cef.org <mailto:JPacker@cef.org> > 202-383-0083 > 202-255-0915 (cell) > www.cef.org <http://www.cef.org/> > www.Twitter.com/edfunding <http://www.twitter.com/edfunding>