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Senate Republicans Reject DeVos Proposed Education Cuts
The kinds of cuts that are proposed in this budget will not occur
Posted Jun 7, 2017 5:01 AM
Emily Wilkins
Senate appropriators told Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on Tuesday that the Education Departments budget request was dead on arrival in Congress, with Republicans and Democrats alike defending programs the department proposes to slash or eliminate in fiscal 2018.
At the Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Subcommittee, DeVos also clarified remarks she made in the House last month. She pledged Tuesday to ensure that federal school choice programs would require schools to follow laws for students with disabilities. She didnt commit to any protections not in federal law.
DeVos declined to say whether the federal government would intervene if states sent vouchers to schools that discriminated against LGBT or minority students.
The departments budget request proposed a $9.2 billion cut in fiscal 2018, to $59 billion from $68.2 billion in the annualized spending levels from the fiscal 2017 continuing resolution enacted in December. Several school choice programs, including vouchers and charter schools, would receive an additional $1.4 billion.
Sen. Roy Blunt, the subcommittee chairman, said students would be hurt if programs that promoted career and technical education and helped disadvantaged students attend college were cut. The Missouri Republican said that when it came to ending federal assistance to before- and after-school programs, it would be all but impossible to get those kinds of cuts through this committee.
The kinds of cuts that are proposed in this budget will not occur, he said.
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Turbineguy
(37,343 posts)"How to succeed in MLM"
And for those who fail: "How to get hooked on drugs".
Vilis Veritas
(2,405 posts)and others like them....
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)Amazing how Protestant* super-Christians love themselves some scams, charlatans, and Elmer Gantrys.
*Protestant: A precise word hardly ever used anymore.
ashling
(25,771 posts)protesting what I do
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)even a major one. I remember the zeal with which one left-wing friend took to "natural" parenting. She nursed her son until he was 5, often in public because she was also trying to raise society's awareness. Then there were yoga and meditation as paths to wisdom, not just healthy muscles. Herbs, of course. Those were big last time we saw her, herbs good, GMOs and Big Pharm poison.
She's hardly the only one. We've known a whole pack of a-religious "true believers" over the decades. A bunch showed up online during the 2016 election.
ProfessorGAC
(65,076 posts)She didn't. She's a silverspoon. She doesn't have money because of her great success. Her money is inherited.
So, even if you were right, she wouldn't be able to set the curriculum since she knows nothing about success.
Turbineguy
(37,343 posts)ProfessorGAC
(65,076 posts)DeVos: "Not born rich? Fuck You!"
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)right?
I mean, can he catch a clue about his Party?
C_U_L8R
(45,003 posts)when even Republicans think you're too mean?!
ashling
(25,771 posts)*rhetoric is not covered under the DeVoss budget and therefore is not to be taught.