Investing in Public Schools: Increasing federal funding for public schools to reduce class sizes, improve facilities, and provide essential resources for students and teachers.
Increase federal funding for public schools to reduce class sizes, improve facilities, and provide essential resources for students and teachers.
Occurrences
Evidence
On May 14, 2026, the House Education and Workforce Committee held a full committee hearing titled "Examining the Policies and Priorities of the Department of Education" with Secretary Linda McMahon to discuss the Department's budget and priorities.
Mannion's FY27 appropriations page is actively soliciting non-defense programmatic and community project funding requests, with the community project funding submission deadline listed as February 28, 2026.
Assessments
Mannion is in his current federal House term, and the available evidence shows ongoing appropriations activity and federal education budget oversight during that same term. However, it does not show an enacted increase in federal public-school funding tied to reducing class sizes, improving facilities, or providing classroom resources. Because the promise concerns federal spending that remains under active consideration rather than a completed or definitively failed outcome, the appropriate status is unresolved with an effort badge for pursuing appropriations-related activity.