{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://harris.house.gov/media/press-releases/chairman-harris-announces-intention-seek-limitations-federal-education-funding", "Chairman Harris Announces Intention To Seek Limitations to Federal Education Funding For States That Lack or Reduce Their Existing School Choice Programs", "2023-03-08", "2023", "2023-03", "Republican", "House", "MD", "Andy Harris", "H001052", "harris.house.gov", "harris", "https://harris.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "Washington, D.C. \u2013 Today, Congressman Andy Harris M.D. (MD-01) Chairman of the Agriculture, Food and Drug Administration, Rural Development, and Related Agencies Subcommittee on Appropriations, announced his intention to seek language in the FY24 Department of Education funding bill that would limit federal funding to states without school choice programs or states that reduce funding to existing school choice programs.\n\nIn Maryland, despite running budget surpluses, GovernorWes Moore seeks to cut two million dollars in State funding from Maryland\u2019s popular school choice program, Broadening Options & Opportunities for Students Today (BOOST). Governor Moore\u2019s budget also includes language to completely phase out the program over the next few years.\n\nAs a very successful school choice program, BOOST provides scholarships to more than 2,500 Maryland low-income families and gives these children a chance at a quality education. According to the latest data available from the BOOST program, nearly $3 million has been awarded to families in Baltimore City alone.\n\nCongressman Harris Statement: \u201cWe cannot tolerate the status quo with failing schools, especially for our underprivileged youth that deserve high quality education. I firmly believe Maryland families, and families across our country, deserve options to improve their children\u2019s education. In Maryland, parents are concerned by the recent Maryland State test results showing that 23 schools in Baltimore had zero students proficient in math\u2014despite high funding levels for public schools. Parents should not be forced to send their children into the same public-school systems that fail them year after year. Now that his campaign is over, Governor Moore clearly is beholden to the teacher\u2019s union\u2014and is not delivering on his promise to \u201cLeave No One Behind.\u201d States which don\u2019t have, or are cutting their school choice programs, clearly don\u2019t have the best interests of students in mind. That\u2019s why I\u2019m offering language to the FY24 Federal Department of Education Bill that would limit federal funds to states that do not have school choice options or are actively cutting funding from school choice programs already in place.\u201d", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-07T23:30:02Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://harris.house.gov/media/press-releases/chairman-harris-announces-intention-seek-limitations-federal-education-funding"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.91056402400136, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}