Federal funding for education will be cut by 5.1 percent under the Sequester, and it appears Congress may not agree on a new budget for some time.

The Atlantic’s Laura McKenna has posted an insightful article on the expected effects and fundamental unfairness of these cuts.

For example:

The majority of federal funding for education is targeted for two groups of school kids — the poor and the disabled. Title 1 (federal support for low-income school districts) and Head Start (the pre-school program for disadvantaged children) serve the disadvantaged kids. The Department of Education support for special education amounts to between a sixth and a quarter of education spending in any given year.

Read McKEnna’s full article at the Atlantic.com