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From Capital to CampusNearly 4 million low- and middle-income students could find college less affordable if Congress goes ahead with its plan to slash Pell Grants, along with many other education programs. The Committee for Education Funding and its member organizations, including NEA, launched a national campaign in September to stop projected overall 18 percent education funding cuts, the largest ever. NEA is a charter member of the coalition. Your help is urgently needed. Members of Congress need to hear strong opposition to all education cuts and strong support for increases in funding key education programs. Mobilize your community to send Congress a message: Make increased federal investment in education the top budget priority and oppose any attempt to freeze or cut federal education spending. To send your message, visit www.nea.org/lac/funding. Also in September, President Clinton announced $120 million in GEAR UP grants to 164 partnerships of colleges and middle schools across the country, including a number proposed by NEA higher education affiliates. These grants will encourage more than 200,000 disadvantaged middle school students to have high expectations, stay in school, study hard, and take the right courses to go to college. Interest in GEAR UP far exceeded available funding---there was only enough funding to approve one out of four partnerships---providing a strong justification for the President's request to double funding for GEAR UP in FY2000. To subscribe to the NEA E-mail Legislative Alert, send to lyris@list.nea.org this message: Subscribe hecongress. Or read the Alert on this web site. Share your legislative news with us. |
