Education funding—including looming K-12 cuts, and especially, the need for flexibility with existing funds—took center stage at a round table for local superintendents, school board members, and others that U.S. Rep. John Kline, the chairman of the House Education and the Workforce Committee, held back in his suburban Minnesota district yesterday.
Kline kicked off the Feb. 25 discussion by talking about what he called “the giant gorilla in the room”: sequestration, a set of 5.3 percent across-the-board federal funding cuts set to hit just about every federal program on Friday unless Congress acts to prevent them.
via Back Home, Kline Talks Sequestration, Funding Flexibility, NCLB.