Spending bill slashes tech., literacy, but has bright spots

04-12-2011

Blog by Alyson Klein/Education Week

Lawmakers in Congress released the long-awaited details early this morning of a long-term spending bill to fund the federal government through September. The bill includes more than $38 billion in cuts. (See summaries here and here.) It eliminates a number of education programs, including: Educational Technology State Grants—$100 million. Literacy Through School Libraries—$19 million. Byrd Honors Scholarship Program—$42 million. And it includes cuts to other education programs. For instance: School Improvement Grants would be funded at $536 million, a $10 million cut. Teaching American History would be cut by $73 million. The program is now financed at $119 million, so that's pretty significant. The GEARUP and TRIO college access programs also would be cut. GEARUP, which got $323 million in fiscal year 2010, would lose $20 million. And TRIO, which got $910 million last year, would lose $25 million. But there are some bright spots for education. (more...)

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