Nearly 3,000 Education, Health, and Other Groups Unite to Fight Funding Cuts

Education Week reports:

Advocates for education have a new, big posse to help fight those automatic spending cuts known as "sequestration" that are set to hit almost every federal program on January 2 unless Congress gets its act together and comes up with a big, sweeping deal to stop them.

The trigger cuts aren't just for education programs (although Title I grants to districts, special education, and Head Start could all see cuts of roughly 7.8 percent according to the Congressional Budget Office). They'll hit just about everything, including health, environmental, justice, housing, and other domestic programs.