News From OSDFS
Advisory Committee on Safe and Drug-Free Schools Releases First Report
to Secretary Spellings
The Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities Advisory
Committee was established in 2006 to provide advice to Education
Secretary Margaret Spellings. The committee advises on
federal, state, and local programs designated to create safe and
drug-free schools and on issues related to crisis planning. The
advisory committee has had an initial focus on three issues:
- Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities State Grants
Program;
- Unsafe School Choice Option Provision; and
- Data requirements under the No Child Left Behind Act.
The advisory committee has carefully examined each topic and
written a report of findings and recommendations. The report,
Enhancing Achievement and Proficiency Through Safe and
Drug-Free Schools, was submitted to Secretary Spellings in
June 2007 and is available on the ED Web site.
The advisory committee is made up of 19 members who work
in the fields of drug, alcohol, and violence prevention; safe
schools; mental health research, and crisis planning.
For more details about the committee and its work, including
the first report findings, visit http://www.ed.gov/about
/bdscomm/list/sdfscac.
OSDFS Announces Prevention News
Bulletin
The Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools is pleased to announce
OSDFS Prevention News Bulletin, a new listserv that is
open to the public.
Anyone interested in receiving the bulletin is invited to self-enroll
online. Sent out as a weekly e-mail, the bulletin provides
highlights on research findings, funding announcements, and
news items pertaining to youth violence prevention and substance
abuse prevention.
To enroll, visit http://www.ed.gov/news/newsletters/listserv/preventioned.html.
To unsubscribe, visit http://www.ed.gov/news/newsletters/listserv/preventioned.html.
ED Budget Process
Work on annual budget proposals for ED starts in late spring
or early summer for the fiscal year beginning 15 months later.
Senior officers develop budget priorities proposals, and the
secretary, after reviewing, submits a comprehensive ED budget
request to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). OMB
is part of the Executive Office of the President and is responsible
for developing the administration’s final budget proposal
for departments and agencies across the federal government.
Each year, the administration submits its budget proposal to
Congress, in early February, shortly after the president’s annual
State of the Union address. The House and the Senate each
maintain an appropriations committee with 13 and 12 standing
subcommittees, respectively, that carefully review the proposed
budget. The subcommittees that consider ED’s budget proposal
also have responsibility for appropriations for the departments
of Labor and Health and Human Services. Each subcommittee
marks up an appropriations bill that reflects its funding priorities
and submits the bill to the full appropriations committee
for review. After the appropriations committee reviews and
perhaps amends the bill, it is sent to the full House or Senate
for final consideration and passage.
A conference committee, a group constituted on a temporary
basis that includes appropriations committee representatives
from the House and Senate, resolves differences between the
two versions of each of the 13 appropriations bills. The conference
committee develops a final appropriations proposal that
is detailed in a conference report and submitted to the House
and Senate for approval. Once an appropriations proposal is
approved by Congress it is submitted to the president for his
signature.
ED’s proposed budget for fiscal year 2008 is currently under
consideration by Congress.
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