Hi everyone, I’ll try to chime in a bit more often in the coming weeks while working with the NCL team on helping to get other people involved in posting this kind of information. Particularly on budget and aprops and occasional related matters. I’d very much love to continue to stay as connected as I can to the adult ed field going forward, but my responsibilities at PSR due to COVID, plus the work I’m doing on behalf of PSR in response to the events of this summer, is taking up all the extra time I used to have for NCL. Most of the following is from CEF... So you all know we have a continuing resolution (CR) in place through December 11 which freezes fiscal year (FY) 2021 funding at last year’s levels temporarily, giving Congress time either to negotiate full-year funding bills by December 11, or decide to extend funding again. Not sure what will happen — depends a lot on the outcomes of the presidential election. And hey, who knows if we will have an election outcome by December 11 anyway? Both the House and Senate have recessed. I was temporarily fooled into thinking that maybe Senate Democrats might try to mess with Sen. McConnell's request for unanimous consent to recess today (which they could totally have done) as a way to throw havoc into the Supreme Court nomination process, but no. They’re gone. They have been warned that they might need to come back into session to consider a COVID relief bill if a deal is reached between Speaker Pelosi and Treasury Secretary Mnuchin on a compromise between the revised Heroes Act, which the House passed last week, (on a largely partisan 214-207 vote), and something Republicans would accept. One area where the two sides seem pretty far apart that may be of interest to this group is the aid for states and cities. The revised Heroes Act would provide $436 billion; Mnuchin’s counter was reportedly $250 billion. I’ve attached a table from Sarah Abernathy of CEF that shows the education funding provisions in the enacted CARES Act as well as various Senate and House proposals, including the revised Heroes Act noted above. Please do not share this table without giving proper credit to Sarah for her work. Jeff Jeff Carter Cell: (202) 374-4387 | @jeffcrtr Occasional Policy Advisor National Coalition for Literacy www.national-coalition-literacy.org <http://www.national-coalition-literacy.org/> jcarter@literacypolicy.org <mailto:jcarter@literacypolicy.org> 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>