1. Federal Education
Funding Update
Noelle Ellerson
AASA March 2013

2. Federal Education Funding
 Budget vs. Appropriations
 Federal Fiscal Year runs Oct. 1 – Sept. 30
 FY13 started Oct. 1, 2012
 FY13 dollars are in 2013-14 school year
budgets
 Federal Budget sets overall funding level (the
whole pie)
 Federal Appropriations determines
programmatic funding level (our piece of the
pie)

3. US Map: Federal Revenue in Local Edu Budgets

4. Budget Control Act (BCA)
 Stems from Debt Ceiling Debate from Summer 2011
 Among other things:
 Raised Debt Ceiling
 Created Super Committee tasked with identifying $1.2
trillion in savings over ten years
 Established spending caps for next ten years (starting
with FY12)
 Required votes on balanced budget amendments
 Sequestration
 Stems from failed ‘Super Committee’ created in BCA
 Sequestration = automatic, across-the-board cuts

5. Sequestration & Education
 Cuts took effect March 1
 Cuts will total $3 billion
 Cuts will come in 2013-14 school year
 Final appropriations for FY13 do not avoid sequestration
cuts; build budgets accordingly
 Every K-12 federal education program will be impacted
 E-Rate and School Lunch are not cut, but they are thru FCC and USDA,
respectively

6. Funding
 Sequestration
 It happened!
 5.1%
 Across the board, all K-12 programs, will impact
you in 2013-14 school year
 IMPACT AID is immediate
 Role of Sequester in pulling the level on flexibility
re: IDEA MoE
 Still not resolved, still opportunity to get it ‘fixed’.

8. Funding
 Federal Appropriations
 FY13 started Oct 1, 2012
 Current CR expires March 27
 Separate from the Sequester
 Congress passed the final appropriations
package (a mix of stand-alone bills and CRs) last
week.
 Level funds education at FY12 levels and
maintains sequestration.
 IDEA anomaly for state Maintenance of Effort

9. Funding
 FY14 Budget Proposals
 President’s not expected until April 8
 House Budget:
 Reduces funding to well below sequester levels
 Passed the House on party-line vote
 Doesn’t resolve sequestration
 Senate Budget
 Eliminatessequestration
 Passed the Senate late last week
 Bottom line? House and Senate are so far apart
that we know we are on a CR course for FY14, as
well.

10. Sources: CEF Calculations based on An Update to the Economic and Budget Outlook: Fiscal Years 2013 to 2023, CBO,
February 2013; OMB Report Pursuant To The Sequestration Transparency Act Of 2012, September 2012; the
American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012, January 2013; House Budget Committee’s Fiscal Year 2014 Budget Resolution
Discretionary Spending table and Senate Budget Committee’s FY 2014 Budget Resolution Discretionary Spending
Summary

11. Function 500
Funding
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Ryan 10-year total = $906 billion; Murray 10-year total = $1,130 billion

12. Other
 ESEA  Perkins/Career
 School Nutrition Tech
 Rural Education  IDEA Full Funding
 Education  From Sasha’s
Technology/E-Rate Portfolio:
 Vouchers/Charters
 Seclusion/Restraint
 IDEA and Due
 Epinephrine Pens
Process
 Early Education  Bullying
 School Safety

13. Contact Your Advocacy Team
Noelle Ellerson Sasha Pudelski
@Noellerson @Spudelski
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