Education Law

Obama releases budget details

ED Secretary Arne Duncan today released details of the proposed FY 2010 budget for education programs. The education community had expected the proposed funding level for Title I  Elementary and Secondary Education Act, the major funding source of No Child Left Behind, to be flat in view of the increases under the stimulus package (the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act).  President Obama proposed some new early childhood education initiatives under ESEA Title I.  To show its commitment in teacher quality and high school reform, the administration significantly raised funding for rewarding teachers and principals and delicated new funding to improve graduation rate.

Here are the proposed funding levels for some of the programs:

• $13 billion for ESEA Title I grants to school districts ($1.5 billion decrease from the current level)
• $1.5 billion for ESEA Title I school improvement grants ($1 billion increase from the current level)
• $11.5 billion for the Individuals with Disabilities Educatoin Act grants to states (same as current level)
• $500 million for a new early childhood grant under ESEA Title I to help school districts estaliblish or expand preschool programs
• $300 million for the new early learning challenge fund for states to improve the quality of publicly funded preschool
• $517 million for Teacher Incentive Fund to reward teachers, prcinipals and other personnel who raise student achievement and work in hard-to-staff schools ($420 million more than the current level)
• $50 million for high school graduation initiative to help school districts test and implement strategies to increase graudation rate

For more information, see ED’s Website

Full post as published by BoardBuzz: NSBA's Daily Weblog on May 07, 2009 (boomark / email).