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Subject: [westop] Fwd: [Trio-list] President Obama Proposes a $67 million
Increase in Appropriations for TRIO in FY 2012
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From: Kimberly Jones <[log in to unmask]>
>Date: February 14, 2011 7:09:47 AM PST
>To: "[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: [Trio-list] President Obama Proposes a $67 million Increase in
>Appropriations for TRIO in FY 2012
>
>
>This was distributed via Congress Plus at 10:05 a.m. today
>February 14, 2011
>
>Dear Colleague:
>
>Today President Obama will propose a $67 million increase in funding for FY 2012
>to provide adequate funding for next fall's Upward Bound and McNair
>competitions and to prevent an absolute loss of students and programs (a 7.8%
>increase over the current funding level). In his proposed budget, President
>Obama requests level-funding for GEAR UP and also provides additional money for
>the Pell Grant program to allow the maximum grant to remain at $5,550.
>
>
>COE will provide additional information when the proposal is released but we
>wanted to share this with you as soon as possible. This is the first increase
>the President has requested for TRIO since he has taken office. This is due in
>part to the advocacy efforts of the TRIO community to the White House and
>Congress. We must keep up this fight to protect our programs and ensure the
>voices of TRIO students, TRIO alumni and students needing TRIO services are
>heard.
>
>For more information on the President’s education agenda, please see the article
>below published in today’s Politico on President Obama’s education focus in the
>FY 2012 Budget.
>
>
>
>Sincerely,
>
>
>
>ArnoldL. Mitchem
>President
>
>
>Politico
>Obama's clarion call for education
>By: Abby Phillip
>February 14, 2011 04:21 AM EST
>President Barack Obama, balancing his blueprint to recalibrate the nation’s
>economy against a looming confrontation with Republicans over federal spending,
>will use the issue of education to help frame the budget debate.
>
>
>As he argues for a budget that includes painful cuts to government-funded
>initiatives he favors, such as home weatherization programs, community
>development plans and even college Pell Grants, the president will use his bully
>pulpit to defend spending more on education — a domestic issue that has been
>overshadowed by debates about the economy and the health care overhaul.
>
>
>“I think they have to,” James Carville, a Democratic political strategist, told
>POLITICO, referring to Obama’s budget strategy.
>
>
>Carville appeared at Teach For America’s 20th anniversary celebration in
>Washington on Saturday, where thousands rallied for the president to push for a
>more aggressive education reform agenda. Later in a recorded video message,
>Obama praised TFA and pledged his administration will continue to support
>teacher recruitment.
>
>
>Republican “budget cuts call for cutting AmeriCorp, which funds this stuff,”
>Carville said referring to the education award given for domestic public service
>that incentivizes much of Teach For America’s corps of teachers. “I think he can
>draw some pretty sharp lines in this budget fight.”
>
>
>To drive home the point, Obama plans to unveil his 2012 budget at a school in
>Baltimore on Monday with Education Secretary Arne Duncan and Budget Director
>Jack Lew. The stop launches a weeklong focus on science and technology education
>— subjects the president has linked to the country’s future economic
>competitiveness; the tour ends with Obama touring the Intel computer chip
>manufacturing site in Oregon .
>
>
>The education spending the White House plans to announce this week includes
>money to recruit science and math teachers, education grants and a third round
>of funding for Obama’s “Race to the Top” school reform competition, a program
>that has been credited with sparking dramatic reforms at the state level.
>Obama has used the competition to encourage states to create more charter
>schools and merit-based-pay systems, ideas viewed as a challenge to a powerful
>constituency: teachers’ unions.
>
>
>But because Republicans continue to blame the White House for high unemployment
>and seem fixated on gutting the health care law, Obama may be hard pressed to
>get more education reforms through Congress. Overhauling the No Child Left
>Behind law in particular would require intense engagement with Capitol Hill at
>a time when there is little political will for policy battles.
>
>
>At the same time, Obama can’t ignore growing anxiety among the Democratic
>education constituency that wants his administration to follow through on their
>promises for change.
>
>
>“The question is: Is this our Egypt moment?” asked former New York City Schools
>Chancellor Joel Klein, a hero of the education reform movement, referring to
>the potential of grass-roots pressure to force Obama’s hand. “I challenge us to
>make this our Egypt moment, because our country cannot wait.”
>
>
>Duncan will lead the push in Congress to fund some of the administration’s key
>priorities, in addition to any other education policy reforms that it intends
>to pursue. He’ll also be on the front lines of outreach to the education
>reformers who have split on the issue of support for teacher unions.
>
>
>On Tuesday and Wednesday, Duncan will travel to Colorado , a major hot spot for
>education — and political battleground for Obama in 2012. Duncan is scheduled
>to address teacher union contracting negotiations.
>
>
>The budget fight is also a major test of the president’s ability to keep the
>Democratic Party’s diverse constituency united despite wide-ranging cuts to
>beloved programs.
>
>
>“It’s hard to have the ‘Democrat message,’” Carville added. “But I think the
>party can be well united, and I think successfully, that we’re against what
>they’re doing. And I think the White House senses that and is going to get into
>this fight really good.”
>
>© 2011 Capitol News Company, LLC
>
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