DCTAG at risk!

[Anonymous]

OP sorry you're getting all this unhelpful feedback. The ones who care aren't necessarily responding. DCTAG has been a political football before, and it's generally been funded in the end. In the meantime we'll just need to keep making sure Congress is aware and doesn't just swallow what the Administration is sending.

[Anonymous]

I should add that the Trump Administration tried to zero out DCTAG in their budget request in 2019 but it was funded anyway.

[Anonymous]

Good lord the comments are ridiculous.

DC Tag is enormously helpful. I hope it's saved.

I do think we have little ability to do anything, and I hate that EHN is as old as she is and I worry DCTAG might not be around much longer. I think there's just little ability we have a DC residents to mobilize or DO anything.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Good lord the comments are ridiculous.

DC Tag is enormously helpful. I hope it's saved.

I do think we have little ability to do anything, and I hate that EHN is as old as she is and I worry DCTAG might not be around much longer. I think there's just little ability we have a DC residents to mobilize or DO anything.

Agree with you about EHN. Why is she still around?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Good lord the comments are ridiculous.

DC Tag is enormously helpful. I hope it's saved.

I do think we have little ability to do anything, and I hate that EHN is as old as she is and I worry DCTAG might not be around much longer. I think there's just little ability we have a DC residents to mobilize or DO anything.

It's *very moderately* helpful. Have you seen the cost of college these days?

[Anonymous]

I've never understood this idea that DC residents have little power to do anything. DC residents have a unique ability to make life very unpleasant for the House and Senate and their staff. It's just no one cares enough.

[Anonymous]

That press release is about the President's budget, which is irrelevant.

What was in the House-passed bill and in the current bill the Senate is considering?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Good lord the comments are ridiculous.

DC Tag is enormously helpful. I hope it's saved.

I do think we have little ability to do anything, and I hate that EHN is as old as she is and I worry DCTAG might not be around much longer. I think there's just little ability we have a DC residents to mobilize or DO anything.

It's *very moderately* helpful. Have you seen the cost of college these days?

For many people, $40,000 is enormously helpful...for some people it's moderately helpful...and for others it's a rounding error (though those families are probably sending their kid to non-DC private colleges for the most part).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I've never understood this idea that DC residents have little power to do anything. DC residents have a unique ability to make life very unpleasant for the House and Senate and their staff. It's just no one cares enough.

Ehh. As someone who has talked to reps regarding DC matters I promise they don't care how long you sit in their office. They see themselves as only beholden to their constituents (and their lobbyists which they'll never say). They'll pawn you off to junior staff.

Unless you can make their lives personally miserable by proximity they absolutely do not care.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Good lord the comments are ridiculous.

DC Tag is enormously helpful. I hope it's saved.

I do think we have little ability to do anything, and I hate that EHN is as old as she is and I worry DCTAG might not be around much longer. I think there's just little ability we have a DC residents to mobilize or DO anything.

It's *very moderately* helpful. Have you seen the cost of college these days?

Not everyone is sending their kids to Michigan or UCLA or UVA, where OOS tuition is nearly as high as private school tuition.

And at public schools that provide merit, that 10K can eliminate tuition costs altogether.

Get out of your bubble.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone know if this means that funds for fall 2025 are not available or does the elimination start fall 2026?

It says FY26 budget is to zero out the DCTAG account. FY’s start 1 October of each year so that means if approved there will be no funds for fall of this year. A real bummer as we already have our approved DCTAG certificate and the school has it as a pending credit. We’re prepared to cover the extra $40K over four years but it’s still not a fun pill to swallow. I highly doubt that this will be repealed and we can expect it. Well now we have even more reason to leave DC. Having to deal with watching how they are going to crucify the DC budget repeatedly over the next four years is reason enough though! DC Minority children will suffer the most from this being taken away. It’s truly disgusting.

[Anonymous]

If the DC TAG is not federally funded, hopefully more states will start to offer in-state rates to DC residents. If they don't want to potentially lose the enrollment (or even gain some extra students), they will make that move (especially Maryland, VA and public HBCU's). It was better than nothing, but the DC TAG was not keeping up with the difference between in-state and out-of-state tuition of many universities (versus when the program was introduced). Other tri-state or border states regions give in-state tuition so hopefully this is something that can be an alternative.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Good lord the comments are ridiculous.

DC Tag is enormously helpful. I hope it's saved.

I do think we have little ability to do anything, and I hate that EHN is as old as she is and I worry DCTAG might not be around much longer. I think there's just little ability we have a DC residents to mobilize or DO anything.

It's *very moderately* helpful. Have you seen the cost of college these days?

I'll just echo another poster - get out of your bubble. 10K is a lot of money. And for my kid, it's 25% of the bill. Sure, 30K is still a lot to pay, but it's more manageable than 40K.

I don't think it's a good look to sneer at 10K. I'd love it if it was more, and made more of a dent in OOS, but it matters even at 10K.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If the DC TAG is not federally funded, hopefully more states will start to offer in-state rates to DC residents. If they don't want to potentially lose the enrollment (or even gain some extra students), they will make that move (especially Maryland, VA and public HBCU's). It was better than nothing, but the DC TAG was not keeping up with the difference between in-state and out-of-state tuition of many universities (versus when the program was introduced). Other tri-state or border states regions give in-state tuition so hopefully this is something that can be an alternative.

I get why tri-state or border states might do it with reciprocal benefits, but tbh I do not understand what Maryland or Virginia have to gain by offering this to DC, which does not have any desirable in-state options that Marylanders or Virginians could benefit from.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone know if this means that funds for fall 2025 are not available or does the elimination start fall 2026?

It says FY26 budget is to zero out the DCTAG account. FY’s start 1 October of each year so that means if approved there will be no funds for fall of this year. A real bummer as we already have our approved DCTAG certificate and the school has it as a pending credit. We’re prepared to cover the extra $40K over four years but it’s still not a fun pill to swallow. I highly doubt that this will be repealed and we can expect it. Well now we have even more reason to leave DC. Having to deal with watching how they are going to crucify the DC budget repeatedly over the next four years is reason enough though! DC Minority children will suffer the most from this being taken away. It’s truly disgusting.

So sounds like we may get it for fall 2025 if funds sent to colleges before 10/1. But definitely lose it for spring 2025 unless added back in to budget.