Education Funding: The Facts*

Overall Discretionary Education Funding

Fiscal Year 2001 (pre-Bush)

• Final Appropriation: $42.2 billion

Fiscal Year 2002

• Bush Proposal: $44.5 billion(+5.5%)
• Final Appropriation: $49.9 billion (+18.2%)

Fiscal Year 2003

• Bush Proposal: $50.3 billion (+0.7%)
• Final Appropriation: $53.1 billion (+6.4%)

Fiscal Year 2004

• Bush proposal: $53.1 billion(+0.05%)
• Final Appropriation: $55.7 billion (+4.8%)

Fiscal Year 2005

• Bush Proposal: $57.3 billion(+3%)
• Final Appropriation: $56.6 billion (+1.6%)

Fiscal Year 2006

• Bush Proposal: $56.1 billion (-0.9%)
• Final Appropriation:$56.5 billion (-0.1%)
  (Note: includes extra $600 million shifted from mandatory to discretionary spending)

Fiscal Year 2007

• Bush proposal: $54.41 billion (-3.8%)

No Child Left Behind

Fiscal Year 2001 (pre-Bush)

• Final Appropriation: $18.7 billion

Fiscal Year 2002

• Bush Proposal: $19.1 billion(+2.5%)
• Final Appropriation: $22.2 billion(+18.8%)
• Authorization Level: $26.4 billion

Fiscal Year 2003

• Bush Proposal: $22.1 billion (-0.4%)
• Final Appropriation: $23.8 billion(+7.4%)
• Authorization Level: $29.2 billion

Fiscal Year 2004

• Bush Proposal: $22.6 billion(-5.1%)
• Final Appropriation: $24.5 billion(+2.6%)
• Authorization Level: $32.0 billion

Fiscal Year 2005

• Bush Proposal: $24.9 billion(+1.8%)
• Final Appropriation: $24.5 billion(+0.2%)
• Authorization Level: $34.3 billion

Fiscal Year 2006

• Bush Proposal: $24.8 billion
• Authorization Level: $36.9 billion
• Final Appropriation: $23.5 billion (-4.1%)

Fiscal Year 2007

• Bush Proposal:
  • Existing NCLB programs: $22.7 billion(-3.4%)
  • New programs (math/science, high school reform, vouchers): $1.3 billion
  • Total NCLB: $24.0 billion (+2.2%)
• Authorization Level: $39.4 billion

Title I

Fiscal Year 2001 (pre-Bush)

• Final Appropriation: $8.8 billion

Fiscal Year 2002

• Bush Proposal: $9.1 billion(+3.4%)
• Final Appropriation: $10.4 billion(+18.1%)
• Authorization Level: $13.5 billion

Fiscal Year 2003

• Bush Proposal: $11.4 billion(+9.7%)
• Final Appropriation: $11.7 billion (+12.9%)
• Authorization Level: $16.0 billion

Fiscal Year 2004

• Bush proposal: $12.4 billion(+5.7%)
• Final Appropriation: $12.3 billion(+5.6%)
• Authorization Level: $18.5 billion

Fiscal Year 2005

• Bush Proposal: $13.3 billion(+8.1%)
• Final Appropriation: $12.7 billion(+3.2%)
• Authorization Level: $20.5 billion

Fiscal Year 2006

• Bush Proposal: $13.3 billion (+4.7%)
• Authorization Level: $22.7 billion
• Final Appropriation:$12.7 billion (-0.2%)

Fiscal Year 2007

• Bush Proposal: $12.7 billion (+0%)
• Authorization Level: $25 billion

IDEA

Fiscal Year 2001 (pre-Bush)

• Final Appropriation: $6.34 billion

Fiscal Year 2002

• Bush Proposal: $7.3 billion(+15.8%)
• Final Appropriation: $7.5 billion(+18.8%)
• Six-Year Path to Full Funding: $8.8 billion
• Full Funding (40 percent of costs): $18 billion

Fiscal Year 2003

• Bush Proposal: $8.5 billion(+13.3%)
• Final Appropriation: $8.9 billion (+17.9%)
• Hagel-Harkin Amendment (Six-Year Path to Full Funding): $9.9 billion
• Full Funding (40 percent of costs): $19.5 billion

Fiscal Year 2004

• Bush Proposal: $9.5 billion(+7.0%)
• Final Appropriation: $10.1 billion(+13.5%)
• Hagel-Harkin Amendment: (Six-Year Path to Full Funding):$11.4 billion
• Full Funding (40 percent of costs): $21.5 billion

Fiscal Year 2005

• Bush Proposal: $11.1 billion(+9.9%)
• Final Appropriation: $10.6 billion(+5.2%)
• Hagel-Harkin Amendment (Six-Year Path to Full Funding): $12.9 billion
• New IDEA Authorization Level: $12.4 billion
• Full Funding (40 percent of costs): $22.4 billion

Fiscal Year 2006

• Bush Proposal: $11.1 billion
• Authorization Level: $14.6 billion
• Full Funding (40 percent of costs): $23.8 billion
• Final Appropriation: $10.6 billion (-0%)

Fiscal Year 2007

• Bush Proposal: $10.7 billion (+0.9%)
• Authorization Level: $16.9 billion
• Full Funding (40 percent of costs): $25.1 billion

*Authorized or full funding level is the maximum funding allowed under the law. Appropriation is the amount allocated for the particular year (can range from zero to the authorized level). Except where indicated as authorization or full funding level, figures represent amounts appropriated or proposed for appropriation.

I need more info:

• Issue Overview: Education Funding
• NEA's Position on Education Funding
• Letters to Congress   
• For 2003-2004 historical data, see FY04
• For 2004-2005 historical data, see FY05 
• For 2006 historical data, see FY06
• The NEA report, No Child Left Behind?: The Funding Gap in ESEA and Other Federal Education Programs, finds the federal government is not providing the funds required by NCLB and other federal programs that serve students and schools.