The White House Education Budget

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President Clinton’s fiscal 2000 spending plan targets funding toward his priorities, including his seven-year class-size-reduction initiative and the Reading Excellent Act, which focuses on teacher training.
FY 1998		FY 1999	FY 2000 Proposed
Goals 2000	$491 million	$491 million	$491 million
School-to-work	200 million	125 million	55 million*
Title I grants	7.38 billion	7.68 billion	7.99 billion
Impact aid	808 million	864 million	736 million
Class-size reduction	--	1.2 billion	1.4 billion
Charter schools	80 million	100 million	130 million
Reading Excellence Act	--	260 million	286 million
Bilingual and immigrant education	354 million	380 million	415 million
Special education state grants	4.53 billion	5.05 billion	5.11 billion
* Identical funding is proposed in the Department of Labor budget. SOURCE: Department of Education.