From Education Week: House GOP Presses for Deep Cuts to Education.
The measure moving through the House includes a more than 16 percent cut
to the Education Department’s discretionary budget for the current
fiscal year, including scrapping more than a dozen K-12 programs and
slicing others once considered untouchable, such as Pell Grants to help
low-and moderate-income students pay for college.
And what does anyone think will happen to the relatively small arts education grant program at the USDOE??
I strongly urge you to read Paul Krugman’s piece in today’s New York Times: Willie Sutton Wept
The whole budget debate, then, is a sham. House Republicans, in
particular, are literally stealing food from the mouths of babes —
nutritional aid to pregnant women and very young children is one of the
items on their cutting block — so they can pose, falsely, as deficit
hawks.What would a serious approach to our fiscal problems involve? I can
summarize it in seven words: health care, health care, health care,
revenue.
What’s next? Look for the elimination of the Education Department. That proposal is just around the corner.