Recently, President Donald Trump announced that he will seek a 5 percent cut across most federal Cabinet departments, including the U.S. Department of Education, for Fiscal Year (FY) 2020, which begins next October. This proposed across-the-board cut to nondefense discretionary funding will likely be included in the president’s FY 2020 budget request to Congress early next year.
In September, Congress approved, with overwhelming bipartisan support, a final FY 2019 Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education appropriations bill that will increase funding for the Perkins Basic State Grant by $70 million--bringing the total to nearly $1.263 billion for next school year (2019-20)! This comes on top of a $75 million boost in Perkins funding in the FY 2018 funding measure. The proposal to cut overall funding for education programs in FY 2020 could jeopardize the important gains in Perkins funding going forward. Continue to let your Members of Congress know that you support increasing our investment in Perkins!
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Posted by: eric | 10/23/2018 at 12:12 AM