The American Association for School Principals released a report Tuesday detailing how schools are bracing for the possibility of across the board federal spending cuts, writes Alyson Klein for Education Week: Of those surveyed, 69.4 percent are betting they’ll have to cut professional development, and 58.1 percent say they’d expect to cut enrichment, after-school, and [...]
With the supercommittee’s deadline looming, something like $3.5 billion in education funding could now be in jeopardy — and that pain could be concentrated in a handful of Indiana districts.
For the Congressional supercommittee, failure is not an option, right? President Obama said it himself, didn’t he? If the supercommittee doesn’t agree on budget cuts to reduce the nation’s deficit, $1.2 trillion in budget cuts — including $3.5 billion to federal education programs — would kick in automatically. Or would they? Jason Delisle, director of [...]
Remember how we told you in August to circle November 23 on your calendar? What with November coming Tuesday and all, we thought we’d remind you that’s the day deep, automatic, across-the-board spending cuts kick in if the Congressional “supercommittee” charged with reducing the federal deficit doesn’t reach a deal. With the deal still, for [...]
Morgan Stanley has donated more than $289,000 to the 12 lawmakers specially-charged with cutting the nation’s deficit, enough to place it at Number 33 on The Center for Responsive Politics’ list of the top donors to the so-called debt ceiling “supercommittee.” Who comes in one spot ahead at Number 32? America’s largest teachers union. National [...]
Reader Carlos Navarro caught our review of what the debt ceiling deal means for education and wrote: It’s not education per se that will be cut. It’s the mammoth white elephant and sacred cows of the the public education establishment that will and must be slashed, to the bone. Pouring trillions year after year into [...]
Circle and star a new date on your calendars, political wonks: November 23, 2011. If lawmakers can’t agree on new cuts to discretionary spending by then, as they say they will under Sunday’s debt ceiling deal, then $500 billion in deep, across-the-board cuts kick in automatically — and education would be one of the specific [...]
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