As education funding crumbles, the sector must ‘get its house in order’

Budget cuts in Washington, London, and beyond mean students across the world are at risk of losing access to their classrooms.

Since the Trump administration’s January dismantling of USAID, the world’s largest bilateral donor to the education sector, delivery partners have had to cancel 396 education programs in 58 countries.

This was followed by the shocking news that another traditional education-backer, the U.K.’s Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, is set to deprioritize education within its own dramatic budget cuts.

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