Education Appropriations Tracker
Welcome to the Committee for Education Funding’s Appropriation’s Tracker. Below you’ll find 3 features:
- Appropriations Charts: Click on any of the buttons below to see the amount of funding Congress appropriated to the type of education policy that interests you most. The charts span from Fiscal Year 2001 to Fiscal Year 2009.
- Full-Funding Gauges: A bill is considered to be fully funded when the House and Senate appropriation subcommittees spend as much money as the House and Senate authorization committees allow. The gauges below will show the percentage of the money Congress said it will spend if the current (Fiscal Year 2010) appropriations bill passes unchanged. For the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), 40% of the excess cost of educating special needs students covered by the federal government is considered full funding. This number is calculated as the amount funded per student by the federal government ($1,710) divided by the national average per pupil expenditure ($10,154) .
- A Discretionary Appropriations Graph: See the U.S. Department of Education’s funding over the past 9 fiscal years. Click on the graph to access the spreadsheets from which the charts were created.
K-12 Education
The most recent draft of the FY 2010 Appropriations Bill has Congress allocating 63.7% of the money authorized for No Child Left Behind
The most recent draft of the FY 2010 Appropriations Bill has Congress allocating the same amount of funding for the IDEA as in FY 2009 (excluding the ARRA), which was 16.8%
Higher Education
Research and Assessment
