MURRAY, BALDWIN CALL ON EDUCATION DEPARTMENT TO ABANDON ITS LATEST TACTIC TO CUT GRANT FUNDING TO COMMUNITIES

WASHINGTON, Oct. 14 -- The Senate Appropriations Committee issued the following news release:

U.S. Senators Patty Murray (D-WA), Vice Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, and Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Ranking Member of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, sent a letter to Department of Education Secretary Linda McMahon calling on her to reverse the department's significantly expanded use of "frontloading" grants, which has dramatically reduced the number of recipients of federal funding.

The Department of Education began using the tactic-wherein it pays for a multi-year grant fully up front instead of one year at a time, thereby dramatically decreasing the number of grants it awar...