{"id":1249,"date":"2019-03-25T13:13:47","date_gmt":"2019-03-25T13:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/research\/?p=1249"},"modified":"2019-03-25T13:13:47","modified_gmt":"2019-03-25T13:13:47","slug":"fy-20-budget-request-ed-focuses-on-program-cuts-school-safety-school-choice-and-workforce-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/research\/2019\/03\/25\/fy-20-budget-request-ed-focuses-on-program-cuts-school-safety-school-choice-and-workforce-development\/","title":{"rendered":"FY 20 Budget Request: ED Focuses on Program Cuts, School Safety, School Choice, and Workforce Development"},"content":{"rendered":"

Under President Trump’s\u00a0FY 20 Budget Request, \u200b<\/a>the U.S. Department of Education (ED)\u00a0would receive\u00a0large cuts in\u00a0funding and, as in previous years, would see many long-running programs eliminated. Overall, the agency would receive either $62 billion or $64 billion, a 12 percent or 10 percent decrease in funding levels, depending on whether one includes cancellations of Pell Grant unobligated balances or not, respectively. The Trump administration lists six main priorities for\u00a0its\u00a0FY 20 request:<\/p>\n

1) Increase access to school choice;<\/p>\n

2) Support high-need students through essential formula grant programs;<\/p>\n

3) Protect students by promoting safe and secure schools;<\/p>\n

4) Elevate the teaching profession through innovation;<\/p>\n

5) Promote workforce development for the 21st century; and<\/p>\n

6) Streamline and improve postsecondary aid programs.<\/p>\n

The FY 20 ED Budget Request\u00a0includes a list of 29 programs\u00a0proposed for elimination, which it states would save $6.7 billion over\u00a0the FY 19 appropriation levels. Many of these programs are of significant interest to GRC members including Strengthening Institutions, Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs, Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need, Javits Gifted and Talented Education, Promise Neighborhoods, International Education and Foreign Language Studies Domestic and Overseas Programs, Teacher Quality Partnership, and many more. It is important to note that\u00a0these programs have been proposed for elimination in\u00a0previous Trump Administration budget requests\u00a0and\u00a0have been\u00a0continued when the\u00a0time has come for\u00a0actual Congressional\u00a0appropriations.<\/p>\n

Among the few programs that would receive increases are the\u00a0Education Innovation and Research\u200b<\/a>\u00a0program ($300 million,\u00a0$170 million above FY 19 appropriations) and the Charter Schools Program ($500 million, $60 million above FY 19 appropriations), while\u00a0significant support and attention is also given to national career and technical education programs.<\/p>\n

\u200bIn an effort to address the sixth priority above, the budget calls for expansion of Pell Grant program eligibility to include students enrolled in “high-quality short-term programs that lead to a credential, certification, or license in an in-demand field.” It also calls for an increase in institutional accountability “by requiring postsecondary institutions accepting taxpayer funds to share a portion of the financial responsibility associated with student loans.”<\/p>\n

Another key education initiative in the budget can actually be found in the request for the U.S. Department of Treasury \u2013 a federal tax credit for voluntary donations to state-designed scholarship programs for elementary and secondary students, capped at 4 billion per year. The credit is available to individuals and domestic businesses. States, not the federal government, will determine family eligibility requirements and allowable uses of scholarship funds.<\/p>\n

An archived webcast of the ED briefing on the FY 20 Budget Request is available\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0and links to ED FY 20 Budget Request materials can be found\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Under President Trump’s\u00a0FY 20 Budget Request, \u200bthe U.S. Department of Education (ED)\u00a0would receive\u00a0large cuts in\u00a0funding and, as in previous years, would see many long-running programs eliminated. Overall, the agency would receive either $62 billion or $64 billion, a 12 percent or 10 percent decrease in funding levels, depending on whether one includes cancellations of Pell […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":322,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ocean_post_layout":"","ocean_both_sidebars_style":"","ocean_both_sidebars_content_width":0,"ocean_both_sidebars_sidebars_width":0,"ocean_sidebar":"","ocean_second_sidebar":"","ocean_disable_margins":"enable","ocean_add_body_class":"","ocean_shortcode_before_top_bar":"","ocean_shortcode_after_top_bar":"","ocean_shortcode_before_header":"","ocean_shortcode_after_header":"","ocean_has_shortcode":"","ocean_shortcode_after_title":"","ocean_shortcode_before_footer_widgets":"","ocean_shortcode_after_footer_widgets":"","ocean_shortcode_before_footer_bottom":"","ocean_shortcode_after_footer_bottom":"","ocean_display_top_bar":"default","ocean_display_header":"default","ocean_header_style":"","ocean_center_header_left_menu":"","ocean_custom_header_template":"","ocean_custom_logo":0,"ocean_custom_retina_logo":0,"ocean_custom_logo_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_tablet_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_mobile_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_max_height":0,"ocean_custom_logo_tablet_max_height":0,"ocean_custom_logo_mobile_max_height":0,"ocean_header_custom_menu":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_family":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_subset":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_size":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_unit":"px","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight_tablet":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight_mobile":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform_tablet":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform_mobile":"","ocean_menu_typo_line_height":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_unit":"","ocean_menu_typo_spacing":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_unit":"","ocean_menu_link_color":"","ocean_menu_link_color_hover":"","ocean_menu_link_color_active":"","ocean_menu_link_background":"","ocean_menu_link_hover_background":"","ocean_menu_link_active_background":"","ocean_menu_social_links_bg":"","ocean_menu_social_hover_links_bg":"","ocean_menu_social_links_color":"","ocean_menu_social_hover_links_color":"","ocean_disable_title":"default","ocean_disable_heading":"default","ocean_post_title":"","ocean_post_subheading":"","ocean_post_title_style":"","ocean_post_title_background_color":"","ocean_post_title_background":0,"ocean_post_title_bg_image_position":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_attachment":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_repeat":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_size":"","ocean_post_title_height":0,"ocean_post_title_bg_overlay":0.5,"ocean_post_title_bg_overlay_color":"","ocean_disable_breadcrumbs":"default","ocean_breadcrumbs_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_separator_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_links_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_links_hover_color":"","ocean_display_footer_widgets":"default","ocean_display_footer_bottom":"default","ocean_custom_footer_template":"","ocean_post_oembed":"","ocean_post_self_hosted_media":"","ocean_post_video_embed":"","ocean_link_format":"","ocean_link_format_target":"self","ocean_quote_format":"","ocean_quote_format_link":"post","ocean_gallery_link_images":"on","ocean_gallery_id":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grants-research-news","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/322"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1250,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249\/revisions\/1250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}