Record $32.3-Billion Budget for E.D. Includes $767 Million for America 2000

By Mark Pitsch

WASHINGTON--President Bush last week unveiled a $1.52-trillion budget for fiscal year 1993 that includes $32.3 billion for Education Department program.

The proposed $1.6-billion increase would be the largest for any domestic federal agency and one of the largest ever for the department.

But $767 million of that total was proposed for a new private-school voucher plan and other parts of the Administration's America 2000 education strategy--which have already been largely...