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Final 2004 Budget for Education

January 28, 2004 1 min read
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The Senate on Jan. 22 approved an omnibus spending package that contains the final Department of Education budget for fiscal 2004, which began last October. The House passed the measure in December, and it now goes to President Bush, who has said he will sign it. Here are spending highlights for selected programs:

Program Fiscal ‘03
Final
President’s Fiscal
’04 request
Fiscal
’04 Final
Title 1 $11.69 billion $12.35 billion $12.34 billion
Special education state
grants
8.87 billion 9.53 billion 10.07 billion
21st Century Community
Learning Centers
994 million 600 million 999 million
Reading First 994 million 1.05 billion 1.02 billion
Teacher- quality state
grants
2.93 billion 2.85 billion 2.93 billion
Rural education 168 million 0 168 million
English- language
acquisition
684 million 665 million 681 million
Pell grants 11.36 billion 12.72 billion 12.01 billion
Total Department of
Education discretionary
spending
$53.11 billion $53.14 billion

$55.66 billion

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education

A version of this article appeared in the January 28, 2004 edition of Education Week as Final 2004 Budget for Education

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