Jon Bernstein
Founder and President
Bernstein Strategy Group’s Founder and President, has over 25 years of experience in education, technology, privacy, appropriations, and telecommunications policy. Jon began his Washington, DC tenure in 1994 as a Legislative Fellow for Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA). He later became legislative counsel for The Lightspan Partnership, an educational software company. In 1997, Jon moved on to lobby for the National Education Association, leaving there in 1999 to commence work for the Federal Communications Commission. He departed the Commission in 2001 to begin work in private practice and launched BSG in 2005. Today, Jon works closely with many of the major K-12 education associations as co-chair of both the Education and Libraries Networks Coalition and the Homework Gap Big Tent Coalition and as Executive Director of the National Coalition for Technology in Education and Training. He also helps lead the Principals Group, which focuses on professional development funding and related issues. He received his BA from Colgate University and his JD from the Northwestern University Law School.
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Senate appropriations committee approves level funding for Title IIA in bipartisan FY25 education funding bill
On Thursday, August 1, the Senate Appropriations Committee approved on a 25-3 vote its Fiscal Year 2025 Labor HHS Education bill. Significantly, Title IIA, which had been eliminated in the House bill, was level-funded in the Senate bill. The committee’s legislative report that accompanies the bill included this statement: “The […] -
House Appropriations Committee approves FY 2025 ed funding bill by 31-25 vote
Today, the House Appropriations Committee unveiled the legislative report for its fiscal year 2025 Labor HHS Education bill, which it will mark-up on July 10 (Update: The committee voted 31-25 to approve the appropriations bill on July 10.) Overall, the report details how the House Appropriations Committee plans to slash […] -
Learning Forward requesting 10% increase for Title II-A in FY25
After Congress finally completed work on fiscal year 2024 appropriations in late March, it immediately began work on fiscal year 2025 Appropriations by holding hearings on the President’s budget and developing new funding bills. Learning Forward has also begun ramping up its work in support of Title II-A, which received […] -
Title II: Opportunities and impact
This webinar highlights state and district successes and challenges in implementing Title II-A programs and collecting impact data. As a community, we seek ways to seamlessly support and integrate high-quality professional learning and to share those efforts with Congress and the Administration as they debate the future funding levels for […] -
Congress releases final FY24 funding agreement; Title II-A spared the budget axe
Late last night, the Congressional Appropriations Committees unveiled their final agreement on fiscal year 2024 funding levels for the six appropriations bills that have not yet passed, including the Labor HHS Education bill. In this challenging budget environment and with an overall spending ceiling lower than in fiscal year 2023, […] -
Title II-A flat-funded in President’s FY25 budget
On Monday, President Biden released his fiscal year 2025 budget proposal. Constrained by a spending agreement that allows only a 1% overall increase in spending for fiscal year 2025, this is a relatively modest budget. Moreover, with action not yet completed on fully half of all fiscal year 2024 appropriations […] -
Congress makes progress on FY24 spending but final deal elusive
When Congress returned to work in January, all members knew that fiscal year 2024 funding remained unresolved and that it faced another countdown to the federal government running out of money. Back in November, Congress passed a temporary spending bill to keep the federal government operating but that set two […] -
Shutdown looms: House pushes elimination of Title II-A
Both the House and Senate are continuing their fitful efforts to complete action on their versions of the 12 fiscal year 2024 Appropriations bills. The Labor, Health and Human Services, Education spending bill, which contains funding for all federal education programs including Title II-A, has not yet been brought to […] -
As Congress gets back to work, Title II-A faces hurdles
Congress returned from its August recess and faces a mountain of work. Its first task will be to pass a continuing resolution, a temporary spending measure that will keep the government operating beyond October 1 when the new fiscal year begins. As Congress moves to pass a continuing resolution, the […] -
Title II-A retained in Senate Appropriations Committee's bill
On July 27, the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee held a full-committee markup to consider several bills, including the fiscal year 2024 Labor-Health and Human Services-Education (LHHS-ED) funding bill. Bypassing a subcommittee markup, the full committee approved the bipartisan spending bill that would provide $79.6 billion in discretionary funding to the […]
