This information was originally published in the Committee for Education Funding newsletter. Please visit their website for more information.
In fact, the Continuing Resolution (CR) for fiscal year (FY) 2025 specifies only a few funding levels of the funding it is cancelling and in the few instances where it is adding money on top of the FY 2024 level. Apart from the named exceptions, the CR continues the funding levels in the FY 2024 bill. However, the text of the FY 2024 Labor-HHS-Education appropriations bill does not list funding levels for all programs; it mostly provides only the total for an account (for instance, one total for Title I-Education for the Disadvantaged, but not the levels for each Title I program). Where the programs levels are indicated is in the Statement of Managers accompanying the FY 2024 bill, but there was no equivalent guide for the FY 2025 CR, which the Administration may take to mean it has more discretion to decide program funding levels where they aren’t indicated in the legislative text.
- FY 2025 CR legislative text – The Labor-HHS-Education part is Title IX of the bill, starting on page 59.
- Education cuts listed in the FY 2025 CR –
- Eliminates $290 million in congressional earmarks for the Department of Education (ED): $202 million of higher education earmarks funded under the Fund for Improvement in Post-Secondary Education (FIPSE), and $88 million for K-12 earmarks cut under the bill’s General Provisions (on page 7) that says funding for section 310 of the FY 2024 Labor-HHS-Education appropriations is not continued.
- Zeros out $107 million of funding for the Department of Labor (DOL)’s Employment and Training Administration’s Demonstration and Pilot projects (page 63)
- Rescinds $75 million of the $301 million provided for DOL Dislocated Workers assistance (page 51)
- FY 2024 legislative text – This is the funding that is continued for FY 2025, except for what I listed above. The Labor-HHS-Education bill is Division D beginning with the Department of Labor on page 427.
- Title I, DOL, starts on page 427, with the Employment and Training Administration starting on that page
- Title II, Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), starts of page 479
- Title III, Department of Education (ED), is on pages 559-588
- Title IV, Related Agencies, includes the Institute of Museum and Library Services on page 597
- FY 2024 Statement of Managers – This is the report language describing the intent of Congress for the Labor-HHS-Education bill.
- The section for ED programs starts on page 75
- HHS starts on page 9.
- DOL employment and training programs are on pages 3 through 5.
- The table specifying all program funding levels starts on page 200 of the PDF (hand-marked page 98); the ED table is on pages 244- 258 of the pdf, which corresponds to the handwritten page numbers 142156.
- Congressional earmarks – officially called Congressionally Directed Spending by the House – for the Department of Education, earmarks are listed on pages 167-199 of the PDF.