Trump’s 2020 Budget Proposes School Funding Cuts, Stresses Choice for Students and Teachers
March 11, 2019
By: Linda Jacobson
Source: Education Dive
The Trump administration is calling for a 10% reduction in federal funding for schools in fiscal 2020 and is recommending flat funding for Title I, special education and English learners.
“The administration believes that we need to reduce the amount of discretionary funding,” James Blew, the department’s assistant secretary for planning, evaluation and policy development, said during a press briefing Monday.
Regarding the Trump administration and Congress not being “synced up” over education policy and funding issues, he added, “It is largely a philosophical disagreement about what role the federal government should be playing in state and local education.”