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Education Appropriations Included in Year-End Consolidated Bill

Dec. 17, 2009—The House and Senate have passed and President Obama signed the FY 2010 Consolidated Appropriations Act (H.R.3288). This bill includes Labor, Health, and Education. Here are some of the key appropriations relevant to publishers.

• Title I Grants for Low-Income Children: $14.5 billion, $1.5 billion above the request for Title I grants to school districts to ensure that approximately 20 million disadvantaged children in nearly 55,000 public schools obtain the educational skills they need to compete in a global economy. These funds may also be used to support early childhood education activities.
   
• School Improvement: $545 million, matching 2009, for assistance to approximately 13,000 schools across the country with chronically poor academic performance
   
• Striving Readers: $250 million to transform Striving Readers into a new comprehensive literacy initiative from pre-K through grade12 to help struggling students build their literacy skills and improve the integration of reading initiatives across the Department of Education
   
• High School Graduation Initiative: $50 million for a new High School Graduation Initiative to target assistance to high schools that disproportionately contribute to the nation's dropout crisis, as proposed by the Administration
   
• Individuals With Disabilities Education Act: $11.5 billion, matching the request and building on $11.3 billion in the Recovery Act, to continue support of the Federal contribution toward special education

Here are excerpts from the statement of David Obey (D-WI), Chair of the House Appropriations Committee.

On the education front, the funding in this bill will help make educational opportunity a reality. Unlike the budget request, the bill does not finance education reforms by cuts to Title I. The bill maintains $14.5 billion for Title I grants to provide educational services to 20 million low-income children. It supports working families by investing $35 million more than last year to expand after school tutoring and academic enrichment for nearly 50,000 more students. And, it includes funding for several of Secretary Duncan's key education reform priorities, including:

1. $400 million for the Teacher Incentive Fund, which supports school districts and States that want to reward effective teachers and schools through compensation systems tied to student achievement results;
2. $250 million for a new comprehensive literacy initiative, under the Striving Readers program, to help struggling students from pre-K through grade 12 build their reading and writing skills; and
3. $50 million for a new high school dropout prevention initiative that will target assistance to high schools that disproportionately contribute to the nation's dropout crisis.

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