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Ahead of tomorrow's hearing on the FY26 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Services proposal, ÂÜÀòÍøsent a letter to the House Appropriations Committee urging members to reject the measure. 

The bill’s $12 billion cut to the Department of Education—achieved through program eliminations, rescissions of already-enacted funds, and a drastic reduction to Title I, Part A— represents an unprecedented disinvestment in K-12 education. In inflation adjusted terms, this proposal would fund education at levels nearly $32 billion below what Congress enacted in 2011. Put more succinctly, this proposal provides less funding per pupil for this year’s graduating class—the 2026 seniors—than it provided when they were in kindergarten. While the bill provides slight increases to IDEA (+$26 million), Career and Technical Education (+$25 million), and Title IV-A (+$5 million), these amounts are negligible compared to the magnitude of reductions elsewhere.

Read our full letter here and more on the FY26 proposal here.