$500M ed-tech grant slated for elimination
Filed in archive Funding your education by mstandaert on February 10, 2005
From e-schoolnews.com ...
President Bush on Feb. 7 released his 2006 budget proposal, asking Congress
to cut more than $1 billion in total education spending and eliminate entirely the $500 million Enhancing Education Through Technology (EETT) state block-grant program, the primary source of federal funding for school technology.
The massive, $2.5 trillion proposal includes a 1 percent across-the-board reduction for all discretionary spending programs and would earmark $56 billion for the U.S. Department of Education (ED) in 2006, down from more than $57 billion in 2005. If the president's budget is approved by Congress, it would mark the end of five consecutive years of increases in department spending, totaling more than $7.9 billion since 2001.
President Bush on Feb. 7 released his 2006 budget proposal, asking Congress
to cut more than $1 billion in total education spending and eliminate entirely the $500 million Enhancing Education Through Technology (EETT) state block-grant program, the primary source of federal funding for school technology. The massive, $2.5 trillion proposal includes a 1 percent across-the-board reduction for all discretionary spending programs and would earmark $56 billion for the U.S. Department of Education (ED) in 2006, down from more than $57 billion in 2005. If the president's budget is approved by Congress, it would mark the end of five consecutive years of increases in department spending, totaling more than $7.9 billion since 2001.
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