FUNDING I’m attaching the latest funding table from CEF. If you use any info in the table in any of your own communications, please be sure to give attribution to CEF via NCL. The manager’s amendment to the just-passed House Labor-H appropriations bill for FY 2019 adds $73 million more for four education programs (but not WIOA adult education — it's still level-funded), as well as language dealing with student loans. If you are interested, those increase are: $47 million for school safety national activities – With this additional funding, the bill now provides $90 million, the same as the FY 2019 level. This was a weird cut to make, IMO, and much criticized, so I’m not surprised to see the funding put back. $13 million for Child Care Means Parents in School $10 million for HBCU financing – for deferment of loans to eligible private Historically Black Colleges and Universities, $5 million above the FY 2018 level. $3 million for American history and civics national activities – with this additional funding, the bill now provides $4.7 million, which is $3 million above the FY 2018 level. I’m still trying to find out what Rep. Barbara Lee’s amendment (which failed) would have funded — something to do with “restoring job training and worker protection programs.” Another failed amendment which would have been nice: Rep. Roybal-Allard’s amendment to Increase the maximum Pell grant by $135. No sense of when/if the Senate/House bills might be conferenced. As I’ve noted before, conventional wisdom is that they won't get all their funding bills done and we’ll have a CR on Sept. 30 that probably takes us past the elections. CTE/MISC. I mentioned on the call last week I’d see what I could find out about the Perkins/CTE bill going to the floor. As luck would have it, Mitch Coppes from ACTE was our “weekly spotlight” speaker at the CEF meeting last Friday. He doesn’t have any prediction as to when it might move. I wold not characterize his response as optimistic. I’ve also asked around about the Farm bill — sense there is that you should not be surprised if they do not meet the Sept. 30 deadline for getting that passed. FYI: Our guest Friday was Rebecca Howard from Sen. Doug Jones’s office. It was good to connect with her again — she was also at the briefing we held in April for the release of the CEF budget book, and she was quite impressed with the presentation given by Steve Hannum from the Literacy Council of Central Alabama. Speaking of the Farm bill, she also said she had been briefed on the SNAP E&T program by the Alabama SNAP-ED person, and was impressed by what she heard. 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>

Forgot to mention one other follow-up from our call last week: the Senate is supposed to be voting this afternoon on the nomination of Scott Stump, as Assistant Secretary for Career, Technical, and Adult Education. As you’ll recall, he was approved by the Senate HELP Committee back on June 26. Also, over lunch had chance to read this piece from CLASP on the differences between the House and Senate farm bills regarding SNAP, with reference to the additional $185 million investment in SNAP E&T that is in the Senate bill. If you are interested: https://thehill-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/economy-budget/397188-house-and-senate-farm-bills-set-contrasting-visions-for?amp <https://thehill-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/economy-budget/397188-house-and-senate-farm-bills-set-contrasting-visions-for?amp> Jeff > On Jul 16, 2018, at 2:19 PM, Jeff Carter <jcarter@literacypolicy.org <mailto:jcarter@literacypolicy.org>> wrote: > > FUNDING > > I’m attaching the latest funding table from CEF. If you use any info in the table in any of your own communications, please be sure to give attribution to CEF via NCL. > > The manager’s amendment to the just-passed House Labor-H appropriations bill for FY 2019 adds $73 million more for four education programs (but not WIOA adult education — it's still level-funded), as well as language dealing with student loans. If you are interested, those increase are: > $47 million for school safety national activities – With this additional funding, the bill now provides $90 million, the same as the FY 2019 level. This was a weird cut to make, IMO, and much criticized, so I’m not surprised to see the funding put back. > $13 million for Child Care Means Parents in School > $10 million for HBCU financing – for deferment of loans to eligible private Historically Black Colleges and Universities, $5 million above the FY 2018 level. > $3 million for American history and civics national activities – with this additional funding, the bill now provides $4.7 million, which is $3 million above the FY 2018 level. > I’m still trying to find out what Rep. Barbara Lee’s amendment (which failed) would have funded — something to do with “restoring job training and worker protection programs.” Another failed amendment which would have been nice: Rep. Roybal-Allard’s amendment to Increase the maximum Pell grant by $135. > > No sense of when/if the Senate/House bills might be conferenced. As I’ve noted before, conventional wisdom is that they won't get all their funding bills done and we’ll have a CR on Sept. 30 that probably takes us past the elections. > > CTE/MISC. > > I mentioned on the call last week I’d see what I could find out about the Perkins/CTE bill going to the floor. As luck would have it, Mitch Coppes from ACTE was our “weekly spotlight” speaker at the CEF meeting last Friday. He doesn’t have any prediction as to when it might move. I wold not characterize his response as optimistic. I’ve also asked around about the Farm bill — sense there is that you should not be surprised if they do not meet the Sept. 30 deadline for getting that passed. > > FYI: Our guest Friday was Rebecca Howard from Sen. Doug Jones’s office. It was good to connect with her again — she was also at the briefing we held in April for the release of the CEF budget book, and she was quite impressed with the presentation given by Steve Hannum from the Literacy Council of Central Alabama. Speaking of the Farm bill, she also said she had been briefed on the SNAP E&T program by the Alabama SNAP-ED person, and was impressed by what she heard. > > 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> > > <07.12.18 CEF's FY 2019 House Appropriations Committee Funding Table.pdf>