White House Releases FY 2019 Budget

Today, the White House released President Trump’s budget request to Congress for Fiscal Year (FY) 2019. This document outlines the Administration's spending priorities for the coming fiscal year, including federal education and workforce training programs. The budget proposes to fund the Perkins Basic State Grant at the FY 2017 level ($1.118 billion). It also requests an additional $13 million for Perkins National Programs to establish a new grant that would support only certain CTE program in STEM fields that are able to compete for funds. This budget request continues the trend over the past decade of underfunding CTE state grants. Funding at the FY 2017 level will represent a 13 percent reduction—nearly $170 million less in federal CTE funding to states—since FY 2007. Read our full statement here.

Overall, the budget would cut the Department of Education’s discretionary funding by $3.6 billion from the FY 2017 enacted level. The Department of Labor would be slashed by 21 percent. Many programs supporting students and job seekers would be drastically cut or eliminated under the president’s budget plan, including:

• Adult education would be cut by $96 million.
• Teacher Quality Partnership Grants for teacher education would be eliminated.
• ESSA Title IV grants that can support career guidance programs would be eliminated.
• ESSA Title II funds to support effective educators would also be eliminated.
• WIOA youth, adult, and dislocated worker state grants would see a combined cut of over $1 billion.

Comments

[Senator Tim Mathern]

Staying home and not getting involved politically has consequences. These numbers are some. Senator Tim Mathern

[Mia D Young]

Investing in Career and Technical Education (CTE) should be a top priority! Career & Technical Education is a catalyst for placement in the workforce as well as to post-secondary education. Please support increased funding for the Perkins Basics State Grant program.