Big cuts in new seats, despite overcrowding crisis, with DOE spinning as a "restoration"
See this DOE press release on their “new” revised amended five year capital plan, which they try to spin as a major restoration, but is real
ly a huge cut.
- In the Feb. 2010 plan (which was adopted in June), the DOE said they would fund 30,000 new seats at $4B, which we clearly knew was insufficient based upon rapidly increased enrollment and overcrowding.
- Then, in their proposed Nov. 2010 amendment, they said they needed to increase this amount to 50,000 new seats at $7.4 billion (including 2300 seats for design only); the first time they admitted the reality of the overcrowding crisis already upon us. (Strangely enough, this document
