Budget Proposal Finds Many Ways To Boost Education

By Erik W. Robelen

Washington

As Congress begins to scrutinize the details in President Clinton's new budget request, the Department of Education is not the only place to look for federal dollars that target precollegiate education.

A variety of other agencies, ranging from the Bureau of Indian Affairs to the Department of Health and Human Services, also administer programs that provide substantial education-related services.

Spending for many of them—with one notable exception being the National Science Foundation's education programs—would go up under the president's...