Information about the Proposed Education Budget for 2018:

CUTS

• The Budget eliminates or reduces more than 30 programs

•  The President’s Budget provides $59 billion in discretionary funding, a $9 billion cut or 13 percent decrease 

• Cuts $3.7 billion in grants for teacher training, after-school and summer programs, and aid programs to first-generation and low-income students

• “Significantly” reduces federal work-study aid to college students

• Eliminates funding for Supporting Effective Instruction State grants, a reduction of $2.3 billion.

• Eliminates funding for the 21st Century Community Learning Centers program – $1.2 billion.

• Eliminates Striving Readers/Comprehensive Literacy Development Grants, – $190 million.

Student Loan Program Faces Major Cuts in Trump Budget

Private Schools Funding

• A historic Increase — $1.4 billion — in charter schools, private schools
  and other school-choice initiatives.

  •  $1 billion increase for Title I for new Furthering Options for Children to Unlock Success (FOCUS) grants

  •  $250 million increase for the Education Innovation and Research (EIR) program for competitive awards for applicants to provide scholarships for students from low-income families to attend the private school of their parents’ choice

  •  $167 million increase for the Charter Schools Grant program to strengthen State efforts to start new charter schools or expand and replicate existing high-performing charter schools

     

You can view the official Proposed Education Budget for 2018 (summary):  https://www2.ed.gov/about/overview/budget/budget18/summary/18summary.pdf

or find individual fact sheets here: https://www2.ed.gov/about/overview/budget/budget18/index.html