DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
The President’s 2009 Budget will:
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Build on the success of the No Child Left Behind Act;
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Advance the President’s historic commitment
to increasing access to higher education;
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Ensure Federal education investments are targeted
to high-performing programs; and
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Support State and local leadership to improve the
quality of education for America’s children.
Building on the Success of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB)
Act
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Improves access to quality
education. Fosters positive change in the Nation’s
schools by requiring accountability for results, offering more choices
for parents and students, providing greater flexibility for States
and school districts, and expanding the use of proven instructional
methods. Successful NCLB results include:
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Improvement across-the-board in fourth and eighth
grade reading and math on the National Assessment of Educational Progress
(NAEP) with minority students posting all-time highs in a number of
categories;
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Increase of 11 percentage points in second grade reading
scores in the research-based Reading First program from 2004–2006;
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Establishment in all 50 States of systems for holding
districts and schools accountable for improving student achievement;
and
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Enhanced educational options for students in struggling
schools, including the choice of a better performing public school
and access to free tutoring.
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Source: National Center for Educational Statistics
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Expands school choice to support
students at risk of being left behind.
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$25 million, or 12-percent, increase in Federal grants
to charter schools.
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A new $300 million Pell Grants for Kids to enable
low income students enrolled in low performing schools to attend a private or out of district public
school.
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Reforms to the 21st Century Community Learning Centers
program to make $800 million available in scholarships for low-income
students to participate in after school programs of their choice.
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Assists at-risk students. Provide extra assistance for students most at risk of being left
behind, including students with disabilities, migrant students, students
in State-run institutions, and limited English proficient students.
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Emphasizes math and science. Ensure the Nation's future competitiveness by supporting the education
components of the President's American Competitiveness Initiative.
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$70 million to train teachers to teach Advanced Placement/International
Baccalaureate courses and expand low-income students access to these
courses.
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$95 million for Math Now, to prepare elementary and
middle school students for more rigorous high school math classes.
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$10 million for an Adjunct Teacher Corps to bring
math and science professionals into high-need schools as teachers.
Sustaining the President’s Historic Commitment to Higher
Education
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Makes college more affordable
for neediest students. In September 2007, the President
signed the College Cost Reduction and Access Act into law, which helped
further his longstanding goal of increasing need-based aid for students.
The Act provided $11.4 billion in new funding for Pell Grants over
the next five years building on the Administration’s unprecedented
funding increase for this program. The Budget implements and builds
on this law and promotes access to higher education by providing:
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$95 billion in loans and grants to help 10.9 million
students pay for college;
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$2.7 billion increase in annual appropriations for
Pell Grants. This investment, together with funding provided by the
College Cost Reduction and Access Act, will support a maximum Pell
Grant of $4,800 in 2009 and allow the maximum grant to rise to $5,400
by 2012;
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$21 million to improve access to, and success in,
postsecondary education for adult and non-traditional students and
$363 million in new loans for short-term training; and
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A 50-percent tax credit for the first $2,000 that
moderate- and low-income parents invest annually in 529 tuition-savings
accounts.
Major Savings and Reforms
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In order to fund increases for education programs
that are effective or show promise of demonstrating results while
restraining overall Federal spending, the Budget reduces or terminates
funding for 50 programs totaling $3.8 billion. Many of these funding
reductions were based, in part, on the Administration’s thorough
review of programs under the Program Assessment Rating Tool (PART).
Program terminations include:
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Even Start, which received an Ineffective PART rating
and failed to effectively increase the literacy skills of participating
children and parents according to three national evaluations; and
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Small, narrowly focused programs that have not demonstrated
results, do not align with national priorities, or can be funded under
other authorities, including programs such as the Exchanges with Historic
Whaling and Trading Partners, Education Technology State Grants, and
the Carol M. White Physical
Education Program. Populations served by these programs receive services
through other Federal programs.
Since 2001, the Department of Education has:
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Reformed K–12 education through the No Child
Left Behind Act, which is raising academic standards for students,
improving accountability in schools and States, and expanding parental
choice.
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Aligned the Individuals with Disabilities Education
Act with No Child Left Behind accountability systems to improve the
quality of education for students with disabilities and ensure that
all students achieve high academic standards.
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Reformed the Federal student aid programs to make
them more cost efficient and targeted additional aid to the neediest students, including an estimated
5.3 million Pell Grant recipients in the 2007/2008 academic year.
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Assessed 92 programs using the PART to guide budget
decisions and programmatic reforms.
Educational Reform, Infrastructure Improvements, and National
Security in the District of Columbia
The District of Columbia (D.C.) is the Seat of Government of
the United States and the Nation’s capital. As such, the Federal
Government has a particular interest in ensuring that D.C. provides
a healthy, vibrant environment for its local citizens and visitors
from across the Nation and around the world. Accordingly, the Budget
provides $157 million for D.C. This includes $74 million to improve
K–12 education in the District, the Mayor’s top priority.
The Budget expands upon the successful three-sector education
strategy, an effort to help all sectors of education in the Nation’s
capital. In addition to $18 million in base funding, the Budget provides
$20 million to jump-start reform initiatives for the District’s
traditional public school system, where the Mayor’s office has
assumed more responsibility and is committed to building on key principles
of the No Child Left Behind Act. It provides $18 million to support
public charter school development and quality, and $18 million to
continue and better target the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship program,
which provides District parents—particularly low-income parents—more
options for obtaining a quality education for their children. The
Budget proposes an increase to the maximum scholarship amount for
high school tuition, and to track future tuition expenses more accurately
by indexing the scholarships to inflation.
The Budget also supports the District’s unique position
as the Nation’s capital by providing $15 million for planning
and security costs directly related to the Federal Government’s
presence in the District. These funds defray D.C.’s security
costs for events such as the 2009 Presidential inauguration, and the
annual World Bank and International Monetary Fund meetings.
The President’s Budget continues support for infrastructure
improvements and public safety projects in the District, providing:
$14 million to rehabilitate existing water, sewer, and waste water
treatment systems; $10 million to support forensic and public health
needs; and $7 million to continue the rehabilitation of the city’s
public libraries.
Department of Education
(Dollar amounts in millions)
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2007 Actual |
Estimate |
2008 |
2009 |
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Spending |
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Discretionary
Budget Authority: |
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No Child Left
Behind Act: |
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Title I Grants
to LEAs 1 |
12,838 |
13,899 |
14,305 |
School Improvement
Grants |
125 |
491 |
491 |
Reading First |
1,029 |
393 |
1,000 |
Striving Readers |
32 |
35 |
100 |
Pell Grants for
Kids |
— |
— |
300 |
21st Century Learning
Opportunities |
981 |
1,081 |
800 |
Charter Schools
Grants |
215 |
211 |
236 |
American Competitiveness
Initiative |
37 |
44 |
175 |
Teacher Quality
State Grants |
2,887 |
2,935 |
2,835 |
Teacher Incentive
Fund |
— |
97 |
200 |
English Language
Acquisition State Grants |
669 |
700 |
730 |
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Special Education
State Grants 2 |
10,783 |
10,948 |
11,285 |
Career and Technical
Education State Grants 3 |
1,182 |
1,161 |
— |
Adult Education |
572 |
561 |
568 |
Federal Student
Aid: |
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Pell Grants—Discretionary
funding |
13,661 |
14,215 |
16,851 |
Pell Grants—Mandatory funding (non-add) |
— |
2,030 |
2,090 |
Supplemental Educational
Opportunity Grants |
771 |
757 |
— |
Federal Work Study |
980 |
980 |
980 |
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Higher Education: |
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Minority Serving
Institutions—Discretionary funding |
435 |
432 |
293 |
Minority Serving Institutions—Mandatory funding
(non-add) |
— |
250 |
250 |
TRIO programs—Discretionary
funding |
828 |
828 |
828 |
TRIO programs—Mandatory funding (non-add) |
— |
57 |
57 |
GEAR UP |
303 |
303 |
303 |
National Security
Language Initiative |
24 |
26 |
59 |
All other |
9,116 |
9,063 |
6,850 |
Total, Discretionary
budget authority 4 |
57,469 |
59,183 |
59,210 |
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Memorandum: Budget authority from enacted supplementals |
374 |
— |
— |
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Total, Discretionary
outlays |
57,367 |
60,171 |
59,032 |
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Mandatory Outlays: |
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Legislative proposal,
Federal Direct Student Loans |
4,194 |
4,973 |
−1,349 |
Legislative proposal,
Federal Family Education Loans |
1,766 |
−1,092 |
1,094 |
Legislative proposal,
Perkins Loan recall |
— |
— |
−1,116 |
Pell Grants, Mandatory
add-on |
— |
562 |
2,026 |
Academic Competitiveness/SMART
Grants |
449 |
599 |
705 |
Vocational Rehabilitation
(VR) State Grants |
2,766 |
2,916 |
2,945 |
All other |
−150 |
−63 |
183 |
Total, Mandatory
outlays |
9,025 |
7,895 |
4,488 |
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Total, Outlays |
66,392 |
68,066 |
63,520 |
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Credit activity |
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Direct Loan Disbursements: |
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TEACH Grants |
— |
30 |
96 |
Legislative proposal,
Loans for Short Term Training |
— |
— |
37 |
Federal Direct
Student Loans (FDSL) |
12,290 |
13,832 |
14,594 |
FDSL Consolidation |
3,575 |
4,114 |
4,424 |
Historically Black
College and University Capital Financing |
170 |
192 |
147 |
Total, Direct
loan disbursements |
16,035 |
18,168 |
19,298 |
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Guaranteed Loan
Disbursements: |
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Legislative proposal,
Loans for Short Term Training |
— |
— |
246 |
Family Federal
Education Loans (FFEL) |
50,181 |
54,875 |
57,076 |
FFEL Consolidation |
46,596 |
33,991 |
38,018 |
Total, Guaranteed
loan disbursements |
96,777 |
88,866 |
95,340 |
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Number of Programs |
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2009 Savings |
Major Savings, Discretionary |
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Terminations |
47 |
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−3,261 |
Reductions |
3 |
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−544 |
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1 Program level. Budget authority is $551 million
less than program level in 2008.
2 Program level. Budget authority is $1,433
million less than program level in 2008 and $791 million less than
program level in 2009.
3 Program level. Budget authority
is $791 million more than program level in 2009.
4 Program level. Budget authority is $1,984
million less than program level in 2008. The 2008 discretionary total
does not include mandatory changes enacted in that year’s appropriations
bills. The 2009 discretionary total is net of two mandatory changes—a
$652 million cancellation of Academic Competitiveness/SMART Grant
balances, and a $101 million reduction from the VR State Grants baseline.
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