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From Capital to CampusNEA staffer Joel Packer, testifying in his capacity as president of the Committee for Education Funding, the nation's largest pro-education lobbying group, recently urged the Senate education subcommittee to significantly increase federal education funding in the Fiscal Year 2000 budget. Packer told the panel that CEF, a nonpartisan coalition of more than 90 pro-education groups whose interests range from pre-school to graduate education, was disappointed in the modest 3.7 percent increase in education funding proposed by President Clinton. Despite increases in federal spending in the past two years, the federal share of education funding has declined at all levels. For example, notes Packer, higher education expenditures declined from 18 percent to 14.6 percent over the past 15 years... You can send E-mail to your representatives and senators via NEA's online Legislative Action Center at: www.nea.org/lac. NEA 1998 Tax Guide Offers tips for educators at: www. nea.org/teaching/taxguide.pdf. To subscribe to the NEA E-mail Legislative Alert: Send to lyris@list.nea.org this message: Subscribe hecongress. Comments on the Advocate? E-mail CLehane@nea.org or visit the Advocate Online on the NEA Higher Education Web site: www.nea.org/he. Tell us about your legislative news. |
