In Press release When announcing the legislation, the president of the Chamber’s approval committee, Republican Tom Cole of Oklahoma, said: “Change does not come from maintaining the status quo, it comes from making bold and disciplined decisions.”
And the Third proposal, of the SenateHe would make minor cuts, but they would largely maintain funds.
A rapid reminder: Federal financing constitutes a relatively small part of school budgets, approximately 11%, thought cuts in low -income districts can still be painful and harmful.
The schools in the blue districts of Congress could lose more money
Researchers from the New America Liberal Expert Group I wanted to know How the impact of these proposals can vary according to the policy of the Congress district that receives the money. They discovered that Trump’s budget would reduce an average of approximately $ 35 million from the K-12 schools of each district, and those led by the Democrats lost a little more than those led by the Republicans.
The chamber proposal would make deeper and more partisan cuts, with districts represented by Democrats who lost an average of approximately $ 46 million and the districts led by the Republicans lost $ 36 million.
The republican leadership of the Chamber’s approval committee, which is responsible for this budget proposal, did not respond to an NPR request for comments on this partisan division.
“In several cases, we have had to make some difficult decisions,” he said during the maximum of the Committee Committee Committee Committee Committee Committee. “Americans must make priorities while they sit around their cooking tables about the resources they have within their family. And we should go to do the same.”
The Senate’s proposal is more moderate and would leave the status quo largely intact.
In addition to the work of New America, he created the Institute of Liberal Learning Policy. This tool Compare the potential impact of the Senate bill with the president’s proposal.
High poverty schools could lose more than low poverty schools
Trump’s proposals and the camera would disproportionate to high poverty school districts disproportionately, according to a Analysis by the liberal edtust that wobbles.
In Kentucky, for example, Edtust estimates that the president’s budget could cost the highest poverty school districts of the State $ 359 per student, almost three times what would cost his richest districts.
The cuts are even more steep in the proposal of the house: Kentucky’s highest poverty schools could lose $ 372 per student, while their lowest poverty schools could lose $ 143 per child.
The Senate bill would reduce much less: $ 37 per child in the most poverty school districts of the State versus $ 12 per student in the districts of lower poverty.
New America researchers reached similar conclusions when studying the districts of Congress.
“The districts of the lower income congress lost and a half of the districts of the richest congress under Trump’s budget,” says Stadler Zahava of New America.
The camera’s proposal, says Stadler, would go further, imposing a trump budget cut in Title I.
“The house’s budget does something new and scary,” says Stadler, “that is openly addressed to students in poverty. This is not something we see ever. “
Republican leaders of the Chamber’s approval committee did not respond to NPR requests for comments on the huge impact of their proposal in low -income communities.
The Senate has proposed a modest increase in title I for next year.
Schools of most minority could lose more than mostly white schools
Like the president’s budget he would reach high poverty schools, New America discovered that he would also have a huge impact on the districts of Congress where schools predominantly serve children in color. These districts would lose almost double funds that the predominantly white districts, in what Stadler calls “a great and enormous disparity. “
One of the various drivers of that disparity is the decision of the White House to end all funds for English language students and Migrant students. In A budget documentThe White House justified to cut the first by arguing the program “Inglean primacy depends … The historical low reading scores for all students mean that states and communities need to unite – Divide notes – classrooms”.
According to the proposal of the House of Representatives, according to Nueva América, the districts of the Congress that predominantly serve the white students would lose rough $ 27 million in augree
Edtust’s data tool tells a similar story, state by state. For example, under the president’s budget, the School Districts of Pennsylvania that serve most of the color students would lose $ 413 per student. The districts that serve the least number of color students would lose only $ 101 per child.
The findings were similar for the proposal of the house: a cut of $ 499 per student in the districts of Pennsylvania that serve most color students versus a cut of $ 128 per child in predominantly white districts.
“That was very surprising to me,” says Ivy Morgan de Edtrust. “In general, the house’s proposal is really worse [than the Trump budget] For high poverty districts, districts with high percentages of color students, cities and rural districts. And we didn’t expect to see that. “
Trump and Chamber’s proposals share a common denominator: the belief that the federal government should be spending less in the schools of the Nation.
When Trump engaged“We are going to be the education back very simply to the states to which it belongs,” this team also reduces part of the federal role in the financing of schools.
