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Impact of Shutdown on ECE
October 2, 2013
The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain.
-Kahlil Gibran
-Kahlil Gibran
October 1 marked the first day of the new federal fiscal year and unfortunately the first federal government shutdown in 17 years. It is not clear how long this shutdown will last. A shutdown lasting a few days to a week, will likely have minor impacts on early childhood programs, whereas a shutdown lasting more than a week will impact government agencies differently. According to the Early Care and Education Consortium, the impact of the shutdown on early childhood programs funded by each government agency is as follows:
Department of Health and Human Services: The Child Care and Development Block Grant rules give states several years to spend the flow of funds they receive from the federal government. States receive funds quarterly and that next payment is on hold. Most states have balances that they can continue to draw down while they wait for a federal agreement to be reached. Head Start grants that have already been awarded and implemented should not be impacted but any grants intended to be awarded October 1 are on hold during the shutdown.
Department of Education: Title I funds from the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) are used for preschool services in many school districts, and states were expecting an installment of Title I funds on October 1. The Department of Ed is working to issue those funds as well as the funds for the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), IDEA Part B for preschoolers.
Department of Agriculture: The Child and Adult Care Food program will continue operations in October.
Early Care and Education Consortium has more details of the FY14 budget, including the memos from the federal agencies, posted here.
Thank you to ECEC for providing this update.
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Comments (2)
Displaying All 2 CommentsIreland
What an absolute disgrace. I was brought up admiring the USA. I cannot believe the ineptitude of this so called government. To allow this type of stalemate in the leading economy in the world is reckless
OMEP-USA
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Thanks for providing this important information about the federal shutdown. As a resident of Washington, DC, I want to share with EED readers that the economic impact of this unfortunate event (I believe that if you don't like a law (Obamacare is the law of the land), you try to repeal it. If that fails, you support the law and help make it work; you negotiate because, as Thomas Friedman writes in today's New York Times, the majority rules) in the Washington DC area: the citizens, business people, and companies who live and work in the metro area (not federal employees) can lose upwards of $200 million a day when the government is not operating. People who drive tour buses, who offer boat trips on the Potomac, who drive taxi cabs, who operate restaurants and hotels, who work in gift shops at the Smithsonian sites, and others will lose substantial sums. Read The Washington Post online and see the damage being done. It isn't just ECE programs; it's also the children's families and neighbors.
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