Budget News

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  • Final 2008 budget a mixed bag for schools
    Thu, Dec 20, 2007    Primary Topic Channel:  Budget News
    Ending a tense standoff with the White House, the Democratic-led Congress has agreed to a $555-billion year-end budget bill that meets President Bush's baseline spending cap on domestic programs and allows lawmakers to return home for the holidays. The budget contains $59.4 billion in funding for the U.S. Department of Education (ED), though an across-the-board recision of 1.75 percent will leave actual ED spending at $58.4 billion. The recision also means $5 million less in federal ed-tech funding this year. [ Read More ]

  • Bush vetoes education spending bill
    Wed, Nov 14, 2007    Primary Topic Channel:  Federal
    Congress will have to go back to work on the 2008 education spending bill, after President Bush vetoed a budget measure that would have provided more than $63 billion in education funding. [ Read More ]

  • Bush budget again would cut E2T2
    Wed, Feb 07, 2007    Primary Topic Channel:  Federal
    For the fourth straight year, President Bush has proposed cutting the Enhancing Education Through Technology block-grant program--the primary source of federal funding for school technology--from the federal budget. Advocates of educational technology say the move makes little sense, given the president's stated commitment to ensuring the global competitiveness of American students. [ Read More ]

  • Ed tech scores Senate victory
    Thu, Jul 20, 2006    Primary Topic Channel:  Funding , Budget News , senate
    Advocates of educational technology received encouraging news July 18 as members of the influential Senate Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Subcommittee voted to level-fund the Enhancing Education Through Technology block-grant program, the largest single source of ed-tech funding in the federal budget, at $272 million. The move comes after House lawmakers followed President Bush's proposal in voting to kill the program in the coming fiscal year. Though the program's fate is by no means guaranteed, the move leaves open the door for EETT to return in 2007. [ Read More ]

  • GOP floats $100M school voucher plan
    Wed, Jul 19, 2006    Primary Topic Channel:  Funding , Fed , Federal
    With a fight over the reauthorization of the federal No Child Left Behind Act looming in Congress, Republican lawmakers have unveiled a $100 million voucher proposal. The program would provide parents of struggling students with thousands of dollars to send their children to private schools, opt for a better-performing public school outside of their jurisdiction, and seek up to $3,000 a year in extra tutoring to help their students improve. Critics of the proposal contend the vouchers would rob public schools of scarce resources--especially as Congress also considers the elimination of hundreds of millions of dollars in ed-tech funds. [ Read More ]

  • A nation left behind on ed tech?
    Fri, Jul 14, 2006    Primary Topic Channel:  School Administration , Federal
    As lawmakers in the U.S. continue to scale back funding for educational technology--Congress is considering eliminating funding for the Enhancing Education Through Technology block grant program, the single largest source of technology-specific funding for schools in the federal budget--education officials in other countries, including Britain and Mexico, are pouring more dollars into school technology programs, gearing up to prepare students for the global economy. [ Read More ]

 

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