Legislative Affairs

Good morning,

In case you missed it, ASBO International Executive Director John Musso posted a legislative alert about the Senate subcommittee's markup of its Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education (L-HHS-ED) appropriations bill. Here are some highlights with additional analysis based on the numbers he provided.

• The Senate L-HHS-ED draft bill provides $161.9 billion in discretionary spending, which is $270 million below the FY2016 level and $2 billion below the Obama Administration’s FY2017 budget request. The bill appropriates $67.8 billion for the Department of Education (ED), which is $220 milllion less than what was appropriated for ED in FY2016.
  
  
• Title I Grants to Local Education Agencies would total $15.4 billion. However, while the proposed Title I level is $50 million above the combined FY2016 level for Title I and School Improvement Grants (SIG), it still represents a cut at the local level. The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) absorbed SIG into Title I and increased the school improvement set-aside from 4% to 7%. Thus, even with the additional $50 million provided by the Senate L-HHS-ED appropriations subcommittee, $150 million will be cut from actual school district allocations, which means many districts will receive a smaller Title I allocation than they did in FY2016.
  
  
• Title IV-A's Student Support and Academic Enrichment Grant (SSAEG) would receive $300 million. ESSA Title IV-A is the new formula block grant to school districts that consolidates approximately 50 prior programs from No Child Left Behind (NCLB) to use for promoting a well-rounded curricula, improving school climates and learning environments, and to implement education technology in classrooms. This represents a $22 million increase over the combined FY2016 funding levels for the 50 consolidated programs. However it is significantly less than what Congress authorized Title IV-A funding at, $1.65 billion, and what the Obama administration requested in its FY2017 budget, $500 million.

In light of these less-than-ideal funding proposals, ASBO International signed onto a letter with the Committee for Education Funding (CEF) last week to urge federal appropriators to increase funding for ED and ESSA Title I and IV grants in the final FY2017 L-HHS-ED appropriations bill. Please see the letter attached to this post for more information and stay tuned to the Legislative Affairs Community for more updates on federal education funding.

Thank you.

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Elleka Yost
Government Affairs & Communications Coordinator
ASBO International
eyost@asbointl.org
Reston, VA
United States
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Good afternoon,

The Committee for Education Funding (CEF) has informed us that the House Appropriations Committee just released the text for its FY2017 Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education (L-HHS-ED) bill. This bill contains the committee’s suggestions for funding L-HHS-ED programs for FY2017, and a summary can be found here. We’ve also listed some of the proposed funding levels for specific education programs below. Please refer to the full bill text for more information.

Note: All funding levels are listed in the thousands of dollars and are subject to change during the markup process. For comparison, see the previous post in this thread for the Senate committee's proposed funding levels. 

• Department of Education (ED) appropriations = $67,000,000
• Title I Grants to LEAs = $15,359,802
• Federal Impact Aid Programs = $1,328,603
• School Improvement Programs = $4,799,912
• 21st Century Community Learning Centers = $1,166,673
• State Assessments = $300,000
• Education for Homeless Children and Youth Program = $70,000
• Rural Education = $175,840
• ESSA Student Support and Academic Enrichment State Grants = $1,000,000
• Teacher and School Leader Incentive Grants = $200,000
• Computer Science Development Grants = $0
• Promise Neighborhoods = $73,254
• IDEA (total) = $13,406,517
• IDEA Part B Grants to States = $12,412,848
• IDEA Preschool Grants = $368,238
• IDEA Grants for Infants and Families = $458,556
• IDEA National Activities = $166,875
• Career, Technical, and Adult Education (CTE) Programs = $1,720,686
• TRIO = $960,000

Stay tuned for this Friday’s legislative update for additional information and analysis.

Thank you.

Good morning,

In case you missed it, ASBO International Executive Director John Musso posted a legislative alert about the Senate subcommittee's markup of its Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education (L-HHS-ED) appropriations bill. Here are some highlights with additional analysis based on the numbers he provided.

• The Senate L-HHS-ED draft bill provides $161.9 billion in discretionary spending, which is $270 million below the FY2016 level and $2 billion below the Obama Administration’s FY2017 budget request. The bill appropriates $67.8 billion for the Department of Education (ED), which is $220 milllion less than what was appropriated for ED in FY2016.
  
  
• Title I Grants to Local Education Agencies would total $15.4 billion. However, while the proposed Title I level is $50 million above the combined FY2016 level for Title I and School Improvement Grants (SIG), it still represents a cut at the local level. The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) absorbed SIG into Title I and increased the school improvement set-aside from 4% to 7%. Thus, even with the additional $50 million provided by the Senate L-HHS-ED appropriations subcommittee, $150 million will be cut from actual school district allocations, which means many districts will receive a smaller Title I allocation than they did in FY2016.
  
  
• Title IV-A's Student Support and Academic Enrichment Grant (SSAEG) would receive $300 million. ESSA Title IV-A is the new formula block grant to school districts that consolidates approximately 50 prior programs from No Child Left Behind (NCLB) to use for promoting a well-rounded curricula, improving school climates and learning environments, and to implement education technology in classrooms. This represents a $22 million increase over the combined FY2016 funding levels for the 50 consolidated programs. However it is significantly less than what Congress authorized Title IV-A funding at, $1.65 billion, and what the Obama administration requested in its FY2017 budget, $500 million.

In light of these less-than-ideal funding proposals, ASBO International signed onto a letter with the Committee for Education Funding (CEF) last week to urge federal appropriators to increase funding for ED and ESSA Title I and IV grants in the final FY2017 L-HHS-ED appropriations bill. Please see the letter attached to this post for more information and stay tuned to the Legislative Affairs Community for more updates on federal education funding.

Thank you.

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Elleka Yost
Government Affairs & Communications Coordinator
ASBO International
eyost@asbointl.org
Reston, VA
United States
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