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Senate Plan Provides Bigger Spending Boost for Federal School Aid
The Senate Appropriations Committee last week unanimously passed a spending bill that would provide a $3.2 billion increase, or 5.7 percent, for the Department of Education in fiscal 2005. The House of Representatives passed its version on Sept. 9. Highlights include:
| FY 2004 | FY2005 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Final Budget | President’s Request | House bill | Senate Committee Bill | |
| Title I grants to districts | $12.34 billion | $13.34 billion | $13.34 billion | $13.46 billion |
| Special education state grants | 10.07 billion | 11.07 billion | 11.07 billion | 11.23 billion |
| Assistance for local school improvement | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100 million |
| Striving Readers | 0 | 100 million | 100 million | 25 million |
| State Grants for Innovative Programs | 297 million | 297 million | 20 million | 0 |
| Statewide data systems | 0 | 0 | 30 million | 40 million |
| Teacher-quality grants | 2.93 billion | 2.93 billion | 2.95 billion | 2.98 billion |
| Even Start | 247 million | 0 | 227 million | 0 |
| TOTAL Department of Education discretionary spending | $55.65 billion | $57.34 billion | $57.68 billion | $58.85 billion |
| SOURCE: Department of Education | ||||
