Federal Budget cuts reflect poorly on education - Ginger Simons, Northern Star T

he Fiscal Year 2020 Budget of the U.S. government continues to make clear the priorities of President Donald Trump and Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos — or, at the very least, that the priority is not education. “The budget requests $62.0 billion for the Department of Education, an $8.5 billion or 12.0-percent decrease compared to the 2019 enacted level (including cancellations of Pell Grant unobligated balances). Excluding cancellations, the budget requests a program level of $64.0 billion for the Department of Education, a $7.1 billion or 10.0-percent decrease compared to the 2019 enacted level,” according to the budget proposal. https://northernstar.info/opinion/federal-budget-cuts-reflect-poorly-on-education/article_7dac1d22-565a-11e9-9d5d-6bc8a5b532e1.html