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
