House FY24 Appropriations Proposal Guts Education
July 14, 2023
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On July 13, the House Appropriations Committee released its FY24 Labor-HHS-Education spending bill. The top line: This is a huge cut to education no matter how you count it. This bill cuts FY 2024 education funding in two ways: it reduces funding – and in some cases provides no funding - below what programs received for FY 2023. Most notably, the bill would cut Title I funding by $14 billion - an 80% cut.
It rescinds $10.4 billion of FY 2024 funding that was already appropriated in the FY 2023 bill as “advance funding” for various elementary and secondary education programs. This is funding that is set to be in schools for the 2023-24 school year….which starts next month. (That advance funding is considered in the “program level” for FY 2023 and was provided for the school year about to start; schools are counting on that funding to be made available on October 1 to be used for the upcoming school year.)
It is important to note that the Republican press release mentions the rescissions but doesn’t count them in the total it provides for ED, stating the proposed bill provides $67.4 billion for ED (a cut $12 billion (15%) from the current FY23 level). In reality, when you include the rescission, the bill’s impact on FY 2024 ED funding is a cut of $22.1 billion – a devastating 28% funding cut education.
Title I Cuts in Your State: The bill rescinds $8.7 billion in advance funding for Title I grants to states that school districts were planning to use for the school year starting as early as next month, and cuts new funding by $6.0 billion for a total $14.7 billion cut to Title I. The Title I cuts nearly 80% of Title I funding; peep this chart to see how many teacher positions could be eliminated under the proposal to cut Title I.
In addition to the cuts, the proposal would also eliminate numerous education programs, including:
- Title II – Supporting effective instruction state grants ($2.19 billion)
- Federal work-study ($1.23 billion)
- Supplemental educational opportunity grants ($910 million)
- English language acquisition ($890 million)
- State assessments ($390 million)
- Teacher and school leader incentive grants ($173 million)
- Magnet schools assistance ($139 million)
- Promise neighborhoods ($91 million)
- Supporting effective educator development ($90 million)
- Teacher quality partnerships ($70 million)
- Child care means parents in school ($75 million)
- Arts in education ($37 million)
- Ready to learn programming ($31 million)
- Statewide family engagement centers ($20 million)
- Javits gifted and talented students ($17 million)
- Hawkins centers of excellence ($15 million)
- (in the Department of Health and Human Services) Preschool development grants ($315 million)
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