Will Choice
Shape the
New School
Market?
D.O.E. Budget
Request Changes
Long-Standing Priorities
BY BOB STIMOLO
P
resident Trump’s fiscal year
2018 budget request of $59
billion includes a reduction
of overall funding for Depart-
ment of Education programs by
$9 billion, or 13 percent. U.S.
Secretary of Education Betsy
DeVos defended the funding re-
duction at a hearing of the Senate
Appropriations Subcommittee
on Labor, Health and Human
Services. The proposed budget
blueprint channels part of the
savings into its top priority: school
choice.
22 essentials | summer 2017