Higher Education Bill Eliminates Dozens of Unfunded Programs

Programs aiming to help disabled students and student military veterans are slated for the scrap heap in the House GOP higher ed reauthorization bill. But many initiatives haven’t seen funding for some time, leaving Democrats and Republicans at odds over the significance of the proposed changes.

More than 60 programs would be eliminated by the House’s PROSPER bill (H.R. 4508), which cleared the Education and the Workforce Committee in December on a party-line vote. Of that group, only five are currently funded, according to list provided by the committee. The rest either were never funded since their inception, or haven’t ...