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Friday, August 2, 2013
Sequestration's potential impact on education
As Congress shifts focus to next year’s spending bills, education advocates are getting ready to renew their push against the across-the-board funding cuts known as “sequestration.” But the fallout from the cuts, which trimmed roughly 5 percent from federal K-12 funding overall this year, is often hard to illustrate or quantify, even for seasoned number-crunchers.
The sequestration cuts—which were put in place for virtually all federal agencies in 2011 to force a long-term budget agreement—are hitting most districts at the start of this coming school year. While some Head Start early-childhood programs already
have had to make painful choices
, sequestration’s impact on K-12 education in the fiscal year ending Sept. 30 is very uneven around the country.
(Alyson Klein at Education Week)
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