The National School Boards Action Center (NSBAC) continues to urge Congress and President Barack Obama to develop an immediate bipartisan solution that will allow school districts to continue programs that are vital in advancing student achievement as they craft budgets for the 2013-14 school year. The Budget Control Act of 2011 is imposing across-the-board cuts of approximately 5 percent to education and other domestic programs in FY2013 through a process called sequestration (the cancellation

Sequestration & Federal Funding for Education This issue brief highlights both the current status of federal funding for elementary and secondary education and the impending funding cuts that are scheduled to occur under the sequestration provisions of the Budget Control Act, if Congress does not intervene before March 1, 2013. Defined as the cancellation of budgetary resources, seque stration and the “fiscal cliff” of tax increases and funding cuts have consumed much of the legislative deba