President Biden’s FY2023 budget proposal, released last Monday, is a statement of values that I share.
It would make historic investments in schools with high poverty rates through Title I funding and in children with disabilities through IDEA. It would also invest in full-service community schools, educator recruitment and retention, higher education, and meeting the mental health needs of students and educators.
To address looming voter suppression, it would increase support for state and local election officials and the U.S. Postal Service.
A new tax on those with assets of $100 million or more—about 20,000 U.S. families—would help defray the cost while reducing the deficit. Taxes on corporations would rise as well.
Now, the hard part begins. Spending levels should be set by Oct. 1, when the fiscal year begins, but I’m not counting on it. As you may recall, Congress didn’t approve this year’s budget until just a few weeks ago, halfway through the fiscal year.
Tomorrow, the Senate Judiciary Committee votes on Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s nomination to the Supreme Court. Later this week, the full Senate will vote. Judge Jackson will be confirmed with bipartisan support and she will make history!
In solidarity,
Marc Egan
Government Relations Director
National Education Association
The daughter of public school teachers and a public high school graduate herself, she represents the best of the legal profession and the best of America.
Email the U.S. Department of Education to advocate for the end of corporate charter schools and to support accountability and transparency for all schools taking our tax dollars.
The COVID-19 pandemic has increased stress among students, as well as educators struggling to be there for their students while coping with challenges of their own.
CHEER:Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) supports confirming Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court.
CHEER:Sens. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) introduced the bipartisan Support Kids Not Red Tape Act (S.3979), which would extend through the summer of 2023 USDA’s authority to issue waivers allowing schools to serve free meals to all students. Co-sponsors include Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) and all 50 Democratic senators.
