Program Performance Plans News Today

Labor-Health-Education Appropriations:  Eliminating Waste andEnhancing Accountability

Congress left unfinished business in 2018. Lawmakers considered proposals to create education savings accounts (ESAs) for children in military families, but they failed to agree on how to redirect taxpayer resources from existing programs to create the accounts. In a proposal introduced by Representative Jim Banks (R–IN) and Senator Ben Sasse (R–NE), a portion of federal Impact Aid funding would have been repurposed to help federally connected students in military families find quality learn...