[BFET] FW: LAW E-Alert: Administration's 'Skinny Budget' Includes Significant Cuts for Higher Ed

Thu Mar 16 16:25:57 PDT 2017

Good afternoon.
I wanted to forward this information along to you. As best as I can tell from this notification and others I can reviewed, there is no specific mention of reduction in SNAP E&T funding that would impact BFET.
Mat

Mat Carlisle
Program Administrator,  Workforce Education
State Board of Community and Technical Colleges
Phone: 360.704.4341
Fax: 360.704.4418
Email: mcarlisle at sbctc.edu

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Good afternoon WEC,

We are monitoring federal budget developments and will share more information as it becomes available.

Nancy Dick | Director, Workforce Education
Washington State Board for Community & Technical Colleges
1300 Quince St SE, Olympia, WA 98504
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Subject: LAW E-Alert: Administration's 'Skinny Budget' Includes Significant Cuts for Higher Ed

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March 16, 2017

Administration's 'Skinny Budget' Includes Significant Cuts for Higher Ed

This morning, President Trump released his initial request for funding for fiscal year (FY) 2018. This ‘skinny budget’ provides some funding details and priorities of the Administration. A full budget is expected later this spring. The budget includes a 14 percent cut to the Department of Education and a 21 percent cut to the Department of Labor. The skinny budget request may be viewed here: http://bit.ly/2nvjrBO.

The budget does not outline all cuts to discretionary education and workforce programs, nor does it include proposed changes to mandatory funding. Below is a summary of information provided in the skinny budget for higher education and workforce programs.

*  The current Pell Grant surplus is targeted with a $3.9 billion cut. While surplus funds currently exceed an estimated $10 billion, community colleges continue to advocate for those funds to be used for the reinstatement of the year-round Pell Grant. Additionally, any proposed changes to Pell Grant mandatory funding will likely remain unknown until the release of the full budget.

*  Funding is eliminated for Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants (SEOG) program. Funded at $733 million, SEOG provides grant aid to over 1.5 million students annually. Community college students represent a quarter of those recipients.

*  Funding is cut for TRIO and GEAR UP. The federal TRIO program receives a $92 million cut under the budget. This is a 10 percent reduction from current funding levels. GEAR UP receives a $104 million cut, which is a 32 percent reduction.

*  The budget includes unspecified cuts to Federal Work Study. The budget document describes the cuts as ‘significant’ and states that the Federal Work Study funding should be better targeted to needy students.

*  Funding for Title III (A) Strengthening Institutions is likely eliminated under the budget request. While the budget maintains funding for Title III and V programs that support Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Minority Serving Institutions at $492 million, it appears to leave out Title III (A), which is funded at just over $86 million. Title III (A) grants are provided to eligible institutions to build capacity to serve low-income students.

*  While the budget proposes $9 billion in cuts to education programs, not all of these cuts are specified. The budget notes there are 20 additional categorical programs that will be reduced or eliminated. Community college priority programs not mentioned in the skinny budget that could still be subject to cuts in the full budget request include Perkins Career and Technical Education, Adult Basic Education, and Child Care Access Means Parents in School.

*  The budget includes significant cuts for workforce programs. The budget requests a decrease in federal support for job-training grants, stating that states, localities, and employers should provide more funding support. This reduction likely includes state training grants that support adult, young, and dislocated workers under the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act. These programs could see large cuts in the full budget request considering there are over $2 billion in unspecified cuts within the Department of Labor request.

The full budget is expected to be released in May. Ultimately, it will be up to Congressional appropriators to determine how to distribute funding for FY 2018. The Administration’s budget shifts $54 billion to support defense programs. However, presently Congress still has to work under the confines of the caps set under the 2011 Budget Control Act, which limits large increases in spending for both defense and nondefense.

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