Sequestion and Education

~ Laura

If sequetration goes into effect on March 1, schools are going to take a big hit. Well, certain groups of kids are going to be hurt the most. Who? Poor kids and special education kids.

The projected cuts include:

  • $740 million cut from Title I
  • $644 million cut from IDEA special education
  • $58.8 million cut from Impact Aid
  • $126 million cut in Teacher Quality State Grants
  • $59 million cut from 21st Century Community Learning
    Centers
  • $9 million cut from rural education
  • $406 million cut from Head Start

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10 thoughts on “Sequestion and Education”

  1. http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/learning-the-language/2013/02/sequestration_and_aid_to_ells_.html
    And $37 million in Title III
    For schools like mine (over 70% free/reduced lunch population with many ELL students) this is horrid. It sounds like districts here are scrambling to move local funds around to cover vital services that the federal money previously covered. My suspicion is that “extras” like music/art/etc. might have to go away to provide what Title I, III, and IDEA previously covered.
    Can I put my head back in the sand and just ignore it all?

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  2. No “if” about it. Sequestration is currently the law of the land. The House and Senate bills that will continue this year’s funding of the federal government both keep sequestration in place through the end of the fiscal year — September 30. There seems to be no appetite anywhere in Washington for un-doing the sequester this fiscal year. In my reading of the political tea leaves, I am highly doubtful that there will be any deal on budgets that undoes sequestration until after the 2014 elections, meaning the cuts will continue to education and other programs not to mention significant furloughs to federal workers.

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  3. So is anyone seeing concrete effects *now*? As Old Salt says, I do think that we are now talking from the baseline of the sequestration cuts for future negotiations. I also suspect though, that a lot of effected agencies are behaving the same way that people behave when they loose a job or have a divorce, that is, they take a while to revise their budget to account for the lack of income.

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  6. Our school district will lose about $50,000 from the sequester, but that pales in comparison to the approx. 37% increase in pension costs that will force other cuts to student services.

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  10. “The name is [a] good sign, if I’m reading it correctly.”
    Either Francis Xavier or Francis of Assisi, right? Or maybe both.

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