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Winners:

School choice: The budget would provide $500 million for federal charter school grants, $168 million more than this year’s budget, and $250 million in “Education Innovation and Research Grants” that would support expanding and studying private school vouchers. It was not clear how much would be directed toward vouchers versus research, the Post reported.

DeVos’s security detail: The budget will ask for another $158 million in salaries at the department for student loan servicing, IT security, auditing, investigations, and security for DeVos, even as the department seeks to reduce the roughly 4,000-member agency’s overall workforce by about 150 people.

Losers:

Career and technical education: The administration proposes cutting the Perkins program, which gives grants to schools and colleges for career education, by 15 percent, or $168 million.

The House Education and the Workforce Committee Wednesday unanimously passed a bill reauthorizing and updating the Perkins program that authorizes up to $1.13 billion for fiscal 2018, and more in subsequent years.

Special populations: The budget proposal would also cut smaller programs designed to help specific populations of students, including $12 million for gifted students, $12 million for the Special Olympics, $65 million for Native American and Native Hawaiian students, and $27 million for arts education.

Office for Civil Rights: The Office for Civil Rights investigates violations of federal protections based on sex, race, and religion, with the number of complaints surging in recent months. The full Trump budget would seek $106.8 million for OCR — equivalent to the first six months of this year, but a decrease from the funding bill passed earlier this month. That would mean a reduction of about 40 jobs, according to the Post.

Disclosure: The Dick & Betsy DeVos Family Foundation previously provided financial support to The 74.

https://www.the74million.org/articl...n-budget-and-why-some-say-its-dead-on-arrival

 

[DR2K]

Elections have consequences. Here are the consequences

 

[Catdaddy]

Fuck charter schools just another "for profit" money grab for people who don't give a fuck about education.. oh and fuck DeVos and her Amway fortune..

 

[paskowitz]

Fuck charter schools just another "for profit" money grab for people who don't give a fuck about education.. oh and fuck DeVos and her Amway fortune..

Don't forget Blackwater family members.

 

[Sai-kun]

I would love to see someone defend defunding specific funds for gifted/native kids haha

What the fuck man

 

[CrocMother]

I would love to see someone defend defunding specific funds for gifted/native kids haha

What the fuck man

They don't have to

 

[SliceSabre]

I would love to see someone defend defunding specific funds for gifted/native kids haha

What the fuck man

something something fraud and waste Conservatives will eat it up.

 

[Socivol]

Fuck charter schools just another "for profit" money grab for people who don't give a fuck about education.. oh and fuck DeVos and her Amway fortune..

I'm a traditional school advocate but not all charters are like this. I wish people would hold charters to the standards they were originally built for but unfortunately that's not the case.

 

[Host Samurai]

lol it's so typical that they want to defund the office of civil rights