Budget Resolution Removes Extra Education Money

Ed Week
By Erik W. Robelen
May 4, 2005

Congress has passed a budget blueprint that strips out more than $5 billion in extra education spending Democrats had inserted in the original Senate version in March.

Still, the final plan would add $1 billion above President Bush’s fiscal 2006 budget request for the Department of Education. The president wants to trim the agency’s discretionary budget by 1 percent.

The House narrowly approved the $2.6 billion budget plan on April 28 by a largely party-line vote of 214-211. Later the same day, the Senate passed it 52-47, with no Democrat voting in favor.

“[T]he congressional Republican leadership wants to roll over for the president,” Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., said in a statement, just after the budget deal was announced on April 28. “This budget’s education cuts weaken America and are a disaster for American families.”

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