{"id":686,"date":"2012-01-03T14:04:42","date_gmt":"2012-01-03T18:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coreeducationllc.com\/blog2\/?p=686"},"modified":"2012-04-25T18:25:58","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T22:25:58","slug":"education-and-the-fy-2012-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coreeducationllc.com\/blog2\/education-and-the-fy-2012-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"Education and the FY 2012 Budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The final budget for the Department of Education was finalized late last month, which will take the agency through September 30, 2012.\u00a0 Overall, the Department\u2019s funding was cut by about $153 million over last fiscal year (total funding $71.3 billion), but President Obama was able to fend off the complete annihilation of programs such as Race to the Top, Investing in Innovation, and School Improvement Grants; however, this victory is not being cheered unanimously.<\/p>\n<p>Preserving these competitive grant programs came at the expense of other proposals, such as one put forward by House Republicans that would have eliminated the programs in favor of large funding increases to formula-funded programs for disadvantaged children and special education.\u00a0 In the new budget, Title I grants and federal special education funds only get tiny increases.\u00a0 Some state superintendents, such as Kirk Miller of the Bozeman, Montana public school district, argue that favoring the competitive grant programs over formula-driven federal funding does not promote \u201ca level playing field for rural states like Montana to obtain funding.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the end, Race to the Top received $550 million for the next round of competition; $160 million is appropriated for a new birth to 12<sup>th<\/sup> grade literacy program; Promise Neighborhoods gets $60 million (double what it was appropriated last year); and Early Head Start is funded at $8 billion (up from $757.6 billion).<\/p>\n<p>Investing in Innovation and the School Improvement Grant program maintained their previous funding levels.\u00a0 However, the Teacher Incentive Fund, a program that provides grants to help districts establish pay-for-performance programs, was cut from $400 million to $300 million.\u00a0 To compensate, 1.5% of the $2.5 billion Improving Teacher Quality State grant program is being set aside to fund a competitive teacher-quality program.\u00a0 These competitive grants would be open to districts, states, and national nonprofits who lost federal aid in FY2011, such as Teach for America and the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards.\u00a0 Additionally, some programs were scrapped altogether, such as the Foreign Language Assistance Program, the Teaching American History Program, and Voluntary Public School Choice.<\/p>\n<p>On another note, a $65 million flexible \u201cpot\u201d was established, with $28.6 million set aside for the support of literacy programs.\u00a0 Half of that sum is set aside for improving 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