National School Boards Association: Federal Cuts Would Deliver Crippling Blow to Public Education

The association's leaders claimed that there would be more than $4 billion in federal funding cuts in public education nationwide if sequestration provisions are implemented.

The National School Boards Association warns that congressional inaction could force the implementation of sequestration provisions, causing critical harm to the public education system.   At a Wednesday afternoon media teleconference, Deborah Rigsby, the organization's director of federal legislation, said that if legistlators did not take action before the first round of cuts take places on Jan. 2, 2013, public education will stand to lose more than $4 billion over the next 10 years nationwide in federal funding. Ostensibly, she said, school districts would lose $82,000 for every $1 million provided at the federal level for programming including Title I and special education. "The sequestration fund cuts could result in high class sizes…

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