Obama knocks GOP’s latest shutdown threat for endangering school funding
Source: Newsweek
Obama knocks GOP’s latest shutdown threat for endangering school funding
Newsweek
14 Sep 2015 at 20:20 ET
September 14, 2015
Jack Martinez
Posted with permission from Newsweek
President Obama jumped on Secretary of Education Arne Duncan’s sixth annual “Back-to-School” bus tour Monday, visiting a high school in Des Moines, Iowa. Facing a possible government shutdown, the president criticized congressional Republicans for delaying the federal budget, which has to pass by September 30 to avoid a government shutdown.
“A society’s values are reflected in where we put our time, our effort, our money. It is not sufficient to say we care about education, if we aren’t actually putting resources into education,” he said.
He said that a sequester would result in significant cuts to federal funding for education.
The event, a town hall attended by high schoolers and their families, focused on college access and affordability. The Obama administration has recently started a public campaign to drum up support for changes to federal policy on higher education. The president has traveled to stump for universal free community college, and the administration recently launched College Scorecard, a website that compiles statistics about the costs and offerings of some 7,000 American colleges.
Obama also implored high schoolers and parents to fill out the newly simplified Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) form, which allows prospective college students to draw from a pool of $150 billion in federal financial aid.
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