The spending priorities in the deal are a repudiation of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’s agenda to reduce the role of the federal government in education. There’s also a boost for special education funding. On the higher education front, lawmakers gave a boost to programs the Trump administration has tried to eliminate or scale back in every budget cycle. There is also a $5 million increase for campus-based child care, bringing the total funding to $53 million — $38 million above the president’s budget request. ADSeparate from the education budget, the spending package includes a provision that would let families with 529 college savings accounts use up to $10,000 to repay education loans.

Source: Washington Post December 20, 2019 00:22 UTC