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Kind of a random list I’ve been collecting. I’m sure I’ve missed some things… Thanks as always to CEF for a lot of this info. - Jeff
Administration.
The President’s State of the Union speech has been rescheduled for this coming Tuesday evening (February 5).
The Administration has not yet announced a new date to release its budget, which had been expected on February 4th but will be delayed due to the shutdown. Conventional wisdom is that mid-March is the soonest we’ll see it.
See: White House not to meet budget proposal timetable after shutdown: source https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-shutdown-budget/white-house-not-to-meet-budget-proposal-timetable-after-shutdown-source-idUSKCN1PN2QP
Three things that are important to remember about the President’s budget: (1) the President asked agencies to cut their budgets by 5% in their 2020 budgets, so you can expect to see deep cuts proposed to education programs; (2) the Administration’s previous two budget requests cut the Department of Education funding by about 11%, and (3) Congress essentially ignored the President’s previous two budget requests. That will be the case again this year. There is not going to be a 5% or more cut the the federal education budget in 2020. But, it’s always interesting to see what the administration priorities are, and to read what they say (or cut and pasted from some Heritage Foundation document) about the various federal education programs, like adult ed.
David Soo is leaving his position at the Department of Education Department to become chief of staff to Maria Flynn at JFF, (which really should be a member of NCL, IMO). He was working on higher education innovation initiatives at OET.
House Education and Labor Committee. The Committee has announced subcommittee chairs and ranking members. Of these, the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Investment is of highest relevance to the adult education community, but here’s the whole list, courtesy of CEF:
Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education – Chair: Del. Gregorio Kilili Sablan (Northern Mariana Islands), Ranking Member: Rep. Rick Allen (GA)
Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Investment – Chair: Rep. Susan Davis (CA), Ranking Member: Rep. Lloyd Smucker (PA)
Subcommittee on Workforce Protections – Chair: Rep. Alma Adams (NC), Ranking Member: Rep. Bradley Byrne (AL)
Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor and Pensions – Chair: Rep. Frederica Wilson (FL), Ranking Member: Rep. Tim Walberg (MI)
Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Human Services – Chair: Rep. Suzanne Bonamici (OR), Ranking Member: Rep. James Comer (KY)
The committee has also published their hearings/events schedule:
https://edlabor.house.gov/hearings-and-events https://edlabor.house.gov/hearings-and-events
https://edlabor.house.gov/media/press-releases/education-and-labor-committee-announces-subcommittee-chairs-assignments-first-four-hearing-topics https://edlabor.house.gov/media/press-releases/education-and-labor-committee-announces-subcommittee-chairs-assignments-first-four-hearing-topics
House Budget Committee. The House Budget Committee has invited CEF to testify at a hearing on February 7th, entitled “Investing in America's Economic and National Security. Sarah Abernathy (who use to work for the Budget Committee) will testify and is the only person speaking on education. I’ve attached the hearing notice.
House Education and Labor Committee. Last week Speaker Pelosi announced that two more Democratic members have been added to the House Education and Labor Committee: Reps. Joaquín Castro (TX) and Lori Trahan (MA). Rep. Trahan used to be Marty Meehan’s chief of staff and represents the 3rd District (the Lowell area), most recently represented by Niki Tsongas.
Republicans members have also been named — the full roster can be found here:
https://edlabor.house.gov/about/membership https://edlabor.house.gov/about/membership
NDD United Letter. Sorry for the short notice on this one — today is the deadline to sign on to a NDD United letter urging Congress to quickly negotiate a new budget agreement to avert the deep cut to non-defense discretionary (NDD) spending that would occur under the existing discretionary spending caps in fiscal year (FY) 2020. Here’s where your organization can sign on:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScooR_tiSUZHvTADshp2xl_iJVEDdu0CVw5Zps5jbeEpiKlYg/viewform https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScooR_tiSUZHvTADshp2xl_iJVEDdu0CVw5Zps5jbeEpiKlYg/viewform
Here is the letter:
http://www.asbmb.org/uploadedFiles/Advocacy/2019%20NDDUnited%20Community%20Sign.pdf http://www.asbmb.org/uploadedFiles/Advocacy/2019%20NDDUnited%20Community%20Sign.pdf
Other. This tween from Bryce MckIbben popped on my twitter feed last night; thought it might be of interest. GAO is conducting a study of the needs of student parents in higher education. If you got to his tweet you can see the GAO letter.
Bryce McKibben (@bmckib <https://twitter.com/bmckib?s=11>)
1/30/19, 3:00 PM https://twitter.com/bmckib/status/1090701350936158208?s=11
Thanks to the work of @PattyMurray https://twitter.com/%E2%80%AA@PattyMurray%E2%80%AC%E2%81%A9 and @SenDuckworth https://twitter.com/%E2%80%AA@SenDuckworth%E2%80%AC%E2%81%A9, the @USGAO https://twitter.com/%E2%80%AA@USGAO%E2%80%AC%E2%81%A9 is conducting a study of the needs of student parents in higher education that will be out later this spring. #RealCollege https://twitter.com/search?q=%23RealCollege&src=hashpic.twitter.com/Go3RiztiAg https://t.co/Go3RiztiAg
A Plea. Every now and then I think it’s important to make this request, so here the latest version: Obviously feel free to use the information I send to this list as you wish. But in consideration for my time, NCL’s policy chairs and the board’s time in keeping this forum going, please consider crediting me and and/or NCL when you do, at least on occasion. It helps support NCL, which, as most of you know, is entirely a volunteer effort.
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
Immediate Past 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
Jeff, thanks for this update. Interesting and useful.
I'll sign the NCL on to the NDD United letter.
Deborah
Deborah Kennedy
Senior Consultant / Owner, Key Words
President, National Coalition for Literacy
office: 202-364-1964 (September-May)
office: 603-293-2402 (June-August)
http://www.national-coalition-literacy.org
---- On Thu, 31 Jan 2019 10:36:10 -0500 Jeff Carter mailto:jcarter@literacypolicy.org wrote ----
Kind of a random list I’ve been collecting. I’m sure I’ve missed some things… Thanks as always to CEF for a lot of this info. - Jeff
Administration.
The President’s State of the Union speech has been rescheduled for this coming Tuesday evening (February 5).
The Administration has not yet announced a new date to release its budget, which had been expected on February 4th but will be delayed due to the shutdown. Conventional wisdom is that mid-March is the soonest we’ll see it.
Three things that are important to remember about the President’s budget: (1) the President asked agencies to cut their budgets by 5% in their 2020 budgets, so you can expect to see deep cuts proposed to education programs; (2) the Administration’s previous two budget requests cut the Department of Education funding by about 11%, and (3) Congress essentially ignored the President’s previous two budget requests. That will be the case again this year. There is not going to be a 5% or more cut the the federal education budget in 2020. But, it’s always interesting to see what the administration priorities are, and to read what they say (or cut and pasted from some Heritage Foundation document) about the various federal education programs, like adult ed.
David Soo is leaving his position at the Department of Education Department to become chief of staff to Maria Flynn at JFF, (which really should be a member of NCL, IMO). He was working on higher education innovation initiatives at OET.
House Education and Labor Committee. The Committee has announced subcommittee chairs and ranking members. Of these, the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Investment is of highest relevance to the adult education community, but here’s the whole list, courtesy of CEF:
Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education – Chair: Del. Gregorio Kilili Sablan (Northern Mariana Islands), Ranking Member: Rep. Rick Allen (GA)
Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Investment – Chair: Rep. Susan Davis (CA), Ranking Member: Rep. Lloyd Smucker (PA)
Subcommittee on Workforce Protections – Chair: Rep. Alma Adams (NC), Ranking Member: Rep. Bradley Byrne (AL)
Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor and Pensions – Chair: Rep. Frederica Wilson (FL), Ranking Member: Rep. Tim Walberg (MI)
Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Human Services – Chair: Rep. Suzanne Bonamici (OR), Ranking Member: Rep. James Comer (KY)
The committee has also published their hearings/events schedule:
https://edlabor.house.gov/hearings-and-events
House Budget Committee. The House Budget Committee has invited CEF to testify at a hearing on February 7th, entitled “Investing in America's Economic and National Security. Sarah Abernathy (who use to work for the Budget Committee) will testify and is the only person speaking on education. I’ve attached the hearing notice.
House Education and Labor Committee. Last week Speaker Pelosi announced that two more Democratic members have been added to the House Education and Labor Committee: Reps. Joaquín Castro (TX) and Lori Trahan (MA). Rep. Trahan used to be Marty Meehan’s chief of staff and represents the 3rd District (the Lowell area), most recently represented by Niki Tsongas.
Republicans members have also been named — the full roster can be found here:
https://edlabor.house.gov/about/membership
NDD United Letter. Sorry for the short notice on this one — today is the deadline to sign on to a NDD United letter urging Congress to quickly negotiate a new budget agreement to avert the deep cut to non-defense discretionary (NDD) spending that would occur under the existing discretionary spending caps in fiscal year (FY) 2020. Here’s where your organization can sign on:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScooR_tiSUZHvTADshp2xl_iJVEDdu0CVw5Zps5jbeEpiKlYg/viewform
Here is the letter:
http://www.asbmb.org/uploadedFiles/Advocacy/2019%20NDDUnited%20Community%20Sign.pdf
Other. This tween from Bryce MckIbben popped on my twitter feed last night; thought it might be of interest. GAO is conducting a study of the needs of student parents in higher education. If you got to his tweet you can see the GAO letter.
Bryce McKibben (https://twitter.com/bmckib?s=11)
https://twitter.com/bmckib/status/1090701350936158208?s=11
Thanks to the work of and , the is conducting a study of the needs of student parents in higher education that will be out later this spring. https://twitter.com/search?q=%23RealCollege&src=hashhttps://t.co/Go3RiztiAg
A Plea. Every now and then I think it’s important to make this request, so here the latest version: Obviously feel free to use the information I send to this list as you wish. But in consideration for my time, NCL’s policy chairs and the board’s time in keeping this forum going, please consider crediting me and and/or NCL when you do, at least on occasion. It helps support NCL, which, as most of you know, is entirely a volunteer effort.
Jeff
Jeff Carter
Cell: (202) 374-4387 | @jeffcrtr
Senior Policy Advisor
National Coalition for Literacy
http://www.national-coalition-literacy.org/
mailto:jcarter@literacypolicy.org
Immediate Past President, Committee for Education Funding
Executive Director
Physicians for Social Responsibility
1111 14th St, NW, Suite 700
Washington, DC 20005
http://www.psr.org/ | mailto:jcarter@psr.org
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Great. BTW, for others considering signing on, NDD United has extended the deadline to February 14th…
Jeff
On Jan 31, 2019, at 11:05 AM, Deborah Kennedy deborah.kennedy@key-words.us wrote:
Jeff, thanks for this update. Interesting and useful.
I'll sign the NCL on to the NDD United letter.
Deborah
Deborah Kennedy
Senior Consultant / Owner, Key Words
President, National Coalition for Literacy
office: 202-364-1964 (September-May)
office: 603-293-2402 (June-August)
www.key-words.us http://www.key-words.us/
www.national-coalition-literacy.org http://www.national-coalition-literacy.org/
---- On Thu, 31 Jan 2019 10:36:10 -0500 Jeff Carter <jcarter@literacypolicy.org mailto:jcarter@literacypolicy.org> wrote ----
Kind of a random list I’ve been collecting. I’m sure I’ve missed some things… Thanks as always to CEF for a lot of this info. - Jeff
Administration.
The President’s State of the Union speech has been rescheduled for this coming Tuesday evening (February 5).
The Administration has not yet announced a new date to release its budget, which had been expected on February 4th but will be delayed due to the shutdown. Conventional wisdom is that mid-March is the soonest we’ll see it.
See: White House not to meet budget proposal timetable after shutdown: source https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-shutdown-budget/white-house-not-to-meet-budget-proposal-timetable-after-shutdown-source-idUSKCN1PN2QP
Three things that are important to remember about the President’s budget: (1) the President asked agencies to cut their budgets by 5% in their 2020 budgets, so you can expect to see deep cuts proposed to education programs; (2) the Administration’s previous two budget requests cut the Department of Education funding by about 11%, and (3) Congress essentially ignored the President’s previous two budget requests. That will be the case again this year. There is not going to be a 5% or more cut the the federal education budget in 2020. But, it’s always interesting to see what the administration priorities are, and to read what they say (or cut and pasted from some Heritage Foundation document) about the various federal education programs, like adult ed.
David Soo is leaving his position at the Department of Education Department to become chief of staff to Maria Flynn at JFF, (which really should be a member of NCL, IMO). He was working on higher education innovation initiatives at OET.
House Education and Labor Committee. The Committee has announced subcommittee chairs and ranking members. Of these, the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Investment is of highest relevance to the adult education community, but here’s the whole list, courtesy of CEF:
Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education – Chair: Del. Gregorio Kilili Sablan (Northern Mariana Islands), Ranking Member: Rep. Rick Allen (GA)
Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Investment – Chair: Rep. Susan Davis (CA), Ranking Member: Rep. Lloyd Smucker (PA)
Subcommittee on Workforce Protections – Chair: Rep. Alma Adams (NC), Ranking Member: Rep. Bradley Byrne (AL)
Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor and Pensions – Chair: Rep. Frederica Wilson (FL), Ranking Member: Rep. Tim Walberg (MI)
Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Human Services – Chair: Rep. Suzanne Bonamici (OR), Ranking Member: Rep. James Comer (KY)
The committee has also published their hearings/events schedule:
https://edlabor.house.gov/hearings-and-events https://edlabor.house.gov/hearings-and-events
https://edlabor.house.gov/media/press-releases/education-and-labor-committee-announces-subcommittee-chairs-assignments-first-four-hearing-topics https://edlabor.house.gov/media/press-releases/education-and-labor-committee-announces-subcommittee-chairs-assignments-first-four-hearing-topics
House Budget Committee. The House Budget Committee has invited CEF to testify at a hearing on February 7th, entitled “Investing in America's Economic and National Security. Sarah Abernathy (who use to work for the Budget Committee) will testify and is the only person speaking on education. I’ve attached the hearing notice.
House Education and Labor Committee. Last week Speaker Pelosi announced that two more Democratic members have been added to the House Education and Labor Committee: Reps. Joaquín Castro (TX) and Lori Trahan (MA). Rep. Trahan used to be Marty Meehan’s chief of staff and represents the 3rd District (the Lowell area), most recently represented by Niki Tsongas.
Republicans members have also been named — the full roster can be found here:
https://edlabor.house.gov/about/membership https://edlabor.house.gov/about/membership
NDD United Letter. Sorry for the short notice on this one — today is the deadline to sign on to a NDD United letter urging Congress to quickly negotiate a new budget agreement to avert the deep cut to non-defense discretionary (NDD) spending that would occur under the existing discretionary spending caps in fiscal year (FY) 2020. Here’s where your organization can sign on:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScooR_tiSUZHvTADshp2xl_iJVEDdu0CVw5Zps5jbeEpiKlYg/viewform https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScooR_tiSUZHvTADshp2xl_iJVEDdu0CVw5Zps5jbeEpiKlYg/viewform
Here is the letter:
http://www.asbmb.org/uploadedFiles/Advocacy/2019%20NDDUnited%20Community%20Sign.pdf http://www.asbmb.org/uploadedFiles/Advocacy/2019%20NDDUnited%20Community%20Sign.pdf
Other. This tween from Bryce MckIbben popped on my twitter feed last night; thought it might be of interest. GAO is conducting a study of the needs of student parents in higher education. If you got to his tweet you can see the GAO letter.
Bryce McKibben (@bmckib https://twitter.com/bmckib?s=11)
1/30/19, 3:00 PM https://twitter.com/bmckib/status/1090701350936158208?s=11
Thanks to the work of @PattyMurray <> and @SenDuckworth <>, the @USGAO <> is conducting a study of the needs of student parents in higher education that will be out later this spring. #RealCollege https://twitter.com/search?q=%23RealCollege&src=hashpic.twitter.com/Go3RiztiAg https://t.co/Go3RiztiAg
A Plea. Every now and then I think it’s important to make this request, so here the latest version: Obviously feel free to use the information I send to this list as you wish. But in consideration for my time, NCL’s policy chairs and the board’s time in keeping this forum going, please consider crediting me and and/or NCL when you do, at least on occasion. It helps support NCL, which, as most of you know, is entirely a volunteer effort.
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
Immediate Past 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
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