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 President
Signs Funding Legislation
from CEC, December 2004
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On December 8,
President Bush signed into law the fiscal year 2005 omnibus
appropriations bill that includes funding for the Department of
Education. The spending total is $920 million over last year's
spending for education programs, but it is still $760 million
less than the amount requested by President Bush earlier this
year. The $920 million figure represents just a 1.6 percent
increase in education spending over last year, which makes it
the smallest increase in almost a decade.
To view complete fiscal year 2004 funding totals for all IDEA
and Javits (gifted) programs and how they compare to the
President's request and previous years' levels, see CEC's
updated budget chart at
http://www.cec.sped.org/pp/appropchart.pdf.
For other major education programs, the omnibus appropriations
bill includes $12.7 billion for Title I, an increase of $400
million over last year, but still $7.8 billion less than the
amount authorized in the No Child Left Behind Act and $600
million less than the President requested. The maximum Pell
Grant was frozen at $4,050 for the third year in a row. To see
all the fiscal year 2005 appropriations levels for every
education program, visit
http://www.ed.gov/about/overview/budget/budget05/05action.pdf.
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