We update our previous coverage of federal money flow through the US education industry with a link to the appropriations bill that passed on September 28th:
A cursory review of the bill — now public law — reveals an increase in funding for education industry economic activity such as teaching and research. A map of the bill’s trajectory over the past few months is linked below:
All Actions H.R.6157 — 115th Congress (2017-2018)
It would be helpful if, one day, appropriation bills like this could be prepared in spreadsheet form (a common practice in private industry) so that it could be easier to identify allocations. For the moment, we recommend a simple search of the PDF of the actual legislative text using the search terms listed in our April 1st coverage retained below
Issue: [18-83]
Category: Public Policy, US Department of Education, US Department of Commerce, US Department of Energy
Colleagues: Mike Anthony, Jack Janveja, Richard Robben
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We generally focus our leading practice discovery resources on safety and sustainability optimization opportunities that are too technical for policy experts; or too political for technical experts. It is a rarefied space compared to the legions of public policy experts in Washington, D.C. who are pre-occupied with appropriations. Some education industry trade associations — and there are an astonishing number of them — retain registered lobbyists to advocate the interests of their members.
From time to time, however — usually on weekends — we break form to review actual legislative text that maps how money flows through the US federal government to our workpoint in schools, colleges, universities and university-affiliated medical research and clinical delivery enterprises. We want to see it ourselves.
Linked below it is the so-called “Omnibus Spending Bill” now at the top of the agenda of the 115th US Congress:
US Congress | Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2018
“Comments” are due September 30, 2018. By this we mean that at this point in the process, the only influence individuals have on the outcome is to communicate directly with their own congressman. (List of current members of the U.S. Congress).
Because the legislation is 2200-odd pages long we recommend searching on terms such as the following:
Department of Commerce | Allocations begin on Page 130
Department of Energy | Allocations begin on Page 428
Department of Education | Allocations begin on Page 981
Other recommended search terms: “university”, “college”, “schools”, “institute”, “facilities”, “hospital”, “infrastructure”, “electric”, “telecommunications”, “buildings”, “science”, “athletic”, or the name of any state. One wonders why the US Congress could not have presented this information on a spreadsheet. Perhaps someone soon shall.
Issue: [18-83]
Category: Public Policy, US Department of Education, US Department of Commerce, US Department of Energy
Colleagues: Mike Anthony, Jack Janveja, Richard Robben
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H.R. 1625 Consolidated Appropriations Act
