How will the Trump administration's new budget proposal affect education? - ATE BYRNE, Daily Tarheel

The Trump administration released its proposed budget Monday for the 2019 fiscal year, which would increase funding for school choice programs such as vouchers and charter schools and cut some college affordability grants and programs. In terms of higher education, UNC School of Education professor Eric Houck sees this budget as a sharp turn away from many of the low-income education programs executed by the Barack Obama administration. “I feel it’s a rollback of a lot of fairly successful programs — programs that support kids by providing educational access both in the K-12 sector through higher education,” Houck said. “I think they’re really short-changing a lot of our best and brightest students.” http://www.dailytarheel.com/article/2018/02/trump-highered-budget-0215