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Trump Budget Puts Key Education Funding At Risk

No word from Gov. Lee about pushing back on school defunding by House GOP, Trump

President Trump’s education budget includes big cuts for public education – including more than $100 million in cuts to Tennessee schools.

They also want to cut $4.5 billion from funds for afterschool and summer programs, technology and digital literacy, mental health services, rural schools, literacy instruction, new teacher training, emergency preparedness, magnet schools, services for unhoused children, arts education, American history and civics education, family engagement and more.

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Maybe Schools Don’t Need Teachers?

Will Democrats Defend Public Schools?

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House GOP Votes to Cut Funds for Schools

Republicans in the U.S. House seem willing to do Trump’s bidding – including by cutting billions in federal dollars that typically flow to public schools.

Unlike the Senate version, which did not cut K-12 funding, the House version slashes $12 billion in school spending (a 15% cut) — including $4.7 billion in cuts to Title I, which funds the nation’s most vulnerable students, constituting a 27% cut to low-income students. Democrats offered amendments to restore the proposed $4.7 billion Title I cut, but all Republicans rejected them.

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This One’s About NAEP

Trump’s Big, Ugly Voucher Scheme

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A Note on Testing

Does measuring more mean better results?

Policymakers love to tout the results of various standardized tests to prove whatever it is they’d like to prove about schools.

The reality is a bit more complicated – but also, rather simple:

That’s the one actual lesson of NAEP; the dream of data-informed, data-driven decision making as a cure for everything that ails us is just a dream. Data can be useful for those who want to actually look at it. But data is not magical, and in education, it’s fruitless to imagine that data will settle our issues.

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A Bleak Future for Schools

Diamonds, iPhones, and Vouchers