President Bush and some congressional Republicans want to consolidate funding for these and other K-12 programs into broad-based state grants. The amounts shown are for selected programs’ allocations from the fiscal 2001 budget:
Technology Literacy Challenge Fund | $450 million |
Innovative Education Program Strategies (Title VI) | $385 million |
Fund for the Improvement of Education | $339 million |
Immigration Education | $150 million |
Technology Innovation Challenge Grants | $136 million |
Preparing Tomorrow’s Teachers to Use Technology | $125 million |
Smaller Learning Communities | $125 million |
Community-Based Technology Center | $65 million |
Star Schools | $59 million |
Arts in Education | $28 million |
Inexpensive Book Distribution Program | $23 million |
Ready-to-Learn Television | $16 million |
Foreign-Language Assistance | $14 million |
Civics Education | $12 million |
National Writing Project | $10 million |
Regional Technology in Education Consortia | $10 million |
Telecommunications Demonstration Project for Mathematics | $8.5 million |
Gifted and talented Education | $7.5 million |
Women’s Educational Equity | $3 million |
Technology leadership activities | $2 million |
Allen J. Ellender Fellowships | $1.5 million |
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education