Great update here from Sarah.Jeff============ Forwarded message ============From : Sarah Abernathy<abernathy@cef.org>To : "CEFMembersList"<CEFMembersList@americancontinentalgroup.onmicrosoft.com>Date : Wed, 24 May 2017 16:28:17 -0400Subject : CEF Update: 05.24.17 - President's budget: size of cut, table showing cuts, CEF budget statement; DeVos hearing============ Forwarded message ============ Wednesday, May 24, 2017  Dear CEF Members:   Here is some more information and analysis on the President’s fiscal year 2018 budget.   ·         CEF table showing education cuts, largest to smallest – The attached 2-page table displays all the discretionary education cuts, from the largest to the smallest. (The table does not include the President’s cuts to mandatory  student loan programs, whose size are measured compared with spending under current law over a 10-year window, and not compared with the amount provided the prior year, which is how discretionary cuts are measured.)  The 24 eliminated programs are shown in  red – 22 of those programs are in the Department of Education, and received a total of $5.1 billion in fiscal year 2017.     ·         Just how much does the budget cut funding for the Department of Education? – The Administration describes its budget as cutting the Department of Education by $9 billion (13%) below the 2017 funding level, but that total doesn’t reflect the whole story.  First, most of the published comparisons are to the 2017 level in the continuing  resolution that expired on May 5, not to the final level Congress then enacted for 2017.  Second, the $9 billion cut includes the $3.9 billion rescission of previously appropriated Pell Grant funding that the President proposes for 2018, but does not include  the $1.31 billion rescission of Pell Grant funding that Congress enacted for 2017.  That means that the 2017 level looks $1.31 billion higher, making for a bigger cut. If you do an apples-to-apples comparison and include the Pell grant rescissions for both  years, the President’s 2018 budget is cutting Department of Education funding by $7.9 billion (12 percent).   ·         CEF statement on the President’s 2018 education budget – CEF issued the attached statement on the President’s budget, and plans to send a letter to Members of Congress expressing similar views tomorrow.     ·         Secretary DeVos hearing on the President’s budget – Education Secretary DeVos testified before Congress today for the first time since her confirmation hearing, and faced questions about both the education cuts and the increases for school choice in the President’s budget.  We will send around a summary  tomorrow, but the  Washington Post focused its coverage on school choice and the use of federal vouchers for private schools, student aid cuts, and IDEA funding.   Tomorrow we’ll turn back to providing information on topics beyond just the 2018 budget!   -          Sarah    Sarah Abernathy, Deputy Executive Director1800 M Street, NW Suite 500 South Washington, DC 20036 T: 202-327-8125 abernathy@cef.org  www.cef.org Twitter @edfunding      
    
    

Great update here from Sarah.Jeff============ Forwarded message ============From : Sarah Abernathy<abernathy@cef.org>To : "CEFMembersList"<CEFMembersList@americancontinentalgroup.onmicrosoft.com>Date : Wed, 24 May 2017 16:28:17 -0400Subject : CEF Update: 05.24.17 - President's budget: size of cut, table showing cuts, CEF budget statement; DeVos hearing============ Forwarded message ============ Wednesday, May 24, 2017  Dear CEF Members:   Here is some more information and analysis on the President’s fiscal year 2018 budget.   ·         CEF table showing education cuts, largest to smallest – The attached 2-page table displays all the discretionary education cuts, from the largest to the smallest. (The table does not include the President’s cuts to mandatory student loan programs, whose size are measured compared with spending under current law over a 10-year window, and not compared with the amount provided the prior year, which is how discretionary cuts are measured.)  The 24 eliminated programs are shown in red – 22 of those programs are in the Department of Education, and received a total of $5.1 billion in fiscal year 2017.    ·         Just how much does the budget cut funding for the Department of Education? – The Administration describes its budget as cutting the Department of Education by $9 billion (13%) below the 2017 funding level, but that total doesn’t reflect the whole story.  First, most of the published comparisons are to the 2017 level in the continuing resolution that expired on May 5, not to the final level Congress then enacted for 2017.  Second, the $9 billion cut includes the $3.9 billion rescission of previously appropriated Pell Grant funding that the President proposes for 2018, but does not include the $1.31 billion rescission of Pell Grant funding that Congress enacted for 2017.  That means that the 2017 level looks $1.31 billion higher, making for a bigger cut. If you do an apples-to-apples comparison and include the Pell grant rescissions for both years, the President’s 2018 budget is cutting Department of Education funding by $7.9 billion (12 percent).   ·         CEF statement on the President’s 2018 education budget – CEF issued the attached statement on the President’s budget, and plans to send a letter to Members of Congress expressing similar views tomorrow.    ·         Secretary DeVos hearing on the President’s budget – Education Secretary DeVos testified before Congress today for the first time since her confirmation hearing, and faced questions about both the education cuts and the increases for school choice in the President’s budget.  We will send around a summary tomorrow, but the Washington Post focused its coverage on school choice and the use of federal vouchers for private schools, student aid cuts, and IDEA funding.   Tomorrow we’ll turn back to providing information on topics beyond just the 2018 budget!   -          Sarah    Sarah Abernathy, Deputy Executive Director1800 M Street, NW Suite 500 South Washington, DC 20036 T: 202-327-8125 abernathy@cef.org www.cef.org Twitter @edfunding