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President Obama Names Education a National Priority But Says Some Programs Will Be CutFebruary 27, 2009—On Thursday, February 26, President Barack Obama released an outline of his federal fiscal year 2010 Budget. FY 2010 corresponds to School Year 2010-11. As he said in his address on Tuesday to a Joint Session of Congress energy, healthcare, and education are priorities. A more complete, line by line Presidential Budget will be available in April, 2009. However, House and Senate Budget Committees will begin hearings on the President’s Budget for 2010, and on their own Congressional Budget proposals beginning next week. The President and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, Peter Orszag, claim this budget is more responsible and honest than many in the past by being inclusive in the budget data included in the budget calculations. Under the President’s Budget proposal for 2010, "discretionary" funding for the U.S. Department of Education would increase by $500 million in 2010. Pell Grants College Student Financial Aid would be transferred as a program to the "mandatory" side of the federal budget. So, funding for that program would no longer be subject to the annual appropriations process. This budget also expands access to high quality early childhood education (zero to 5 years of age); prepares and rewards effective teachers and principals; supports innovation and strategies to improve achievement; funds education research; promotes successful models for turning around low-achieving schools; focuses on college completion. The President pledges to cut the federal deficit by 50% by the end of his first term in office in 2013. In his speech to Congress he pledged that the School Year 2010-11 budget, "will end education programs that don’t work."
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