Preliminary 2010 Education Appropriations Comparison

Funding legislation for most federal education programs has been advancing in both the House and Senate in the past weeks. The fiscal year 2010 Labor-HHS-Education appropriations bill has been approved by the full House and has been cleared by the Appropriations Committee in the Senate. It appears that the full Senate will take up the bill when it returns in September from recess. Then, both Chambers will still need to work out any differences among their respective versions before the appropriations bill can be sent to the President for his signature. Fiscal year 2010 begins October 1^st, 2009, although much of the education funding provided in the bill is intended for the 2010-11 school year.

The table below compares proposed 2010 funding levels for key federal programs in the President’s request and the House and Senate versions of the Labor-HHS-Education appropriations bill. Note that the Senate has not yet publicly released its version, so only limited information is available for the table below.

As the 2010 Labor-HHS-Education appropriations bills stand now, there is still plenty of disagreement among the House, Senate, and the President. We will update our table in future posts as the education appropriations process resumes in earnest in September and the three parties resolve the funding differences.