View as Webpage Congress is back and facing yet another manufactured crisis. Unless it acts soon, the Department of Education and other vital government programs will shut down on Oct. 1, when funding runs out and the new fiscal year begins. In the Senate, all 12 necessary FY2024 funding bills have advanced through committee in […]

Last week, we told you how bad the House majority’s extreme Labor-HHS-Education appropriations bill is and how much damage it would do to schools.  To recap, the bill decimates the Title I program, eliminates funding to reduce class sizes, eliminates funding for the English Language Learner (ELL) program and educator professional development, and blocks meaningful […]

View as Webpage It is particularly cruel to take money away from school districts after it’s already been appropriated for the upcoming school year—but that’s what the education funding bill being pushed by House Republicans does. And that’s just one aspect of a bill that uses students as pawns to advance cruel MAGA priorities.    […]