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What Happens to Education Spending if the Budget Stays in a Holding Pattern

Education Week: Right now, the federal budget is flying in circles. It's operating on a "continuing resolution" through April 28 that essentially holds fiscal year 2017 spending levels at their fiscal 2016 amounts. Trump recently released a very broad outline of his spending priorities for fiscal 2018 that includes a $54 billion cut from domestic agencies—fiscal 2018 starts in October—although we still don't know how that 10 percent cut in non-defense discretionary spending would specifically impact the U.S. Department of Education. But where does that leave fiscal 2017 in terms of education spending? And what happens if Congress decides to apply that continuing resolution to the rest of fiscal 2017 through September? With each passing day, that looks increasingly likely. Below, we examine how a few programs in the Every Students Succeeds Act would be affected if Congress approves a continuing resolution for the rest of the fiscal 2017.  Here's one important thing to keep in mind: Although a continuing resolution would keep funding at current levels, Congress can adjust what's in such a resolution, through what are called "anomalies" in federal budget lingo. In general, it's very likely that lawmakers will attempt to square what's in the continuing resolution with what's in ESSA. But what that process looks like, and how closely any such resolution ultimately matches ESSA in terms of funding levels, remains to be seen.

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