President's FY06 Budget

State/Congressional District | Program

The President's proposed FY06 education budget, released on February 7, 2005, proposed the first cut in education funding in a decade. The budget would reduce overall education funding by $529 million (-0.9 percent).

It proposed to eliminate 48 education programs, including Even Start family literacy, comprehensive school reform, education technology state grants, gifted and talented education, dropout prevention, parental information resource centers, safe and drug-free schools state grants, vocational education, GEAR-UP, and Upward Bound.

Funding for No Child Left Behind (NCLB) programs would receive a small increase of $316 million (+1.3 percent), but most of that increase would be to pay for the proposed two additional years of testing in high schools.

The budget also proposed a new $500 million Teacher Incentive Fund program focused on merit pay and $50 million to expand funding for private school vouchers.

The following data, organized by state/congressional district and program, compares the funding in the President's proposed FY06 education budget for 15 key education programs with the levels authorized (maximum allowable funding) for each program. Also included are the numbers of unserved children under key programs by state and congressional district.

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