Stimulus Package: Education's Raw Figures
By Converge Staff
on February 9, 2009
The following is an education breakdown of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. It is provided by the United States Senate Committee on Appropriations.
Education and training receive boost from economic stimulus
- $39 billion State Fiscal Stabilization Fund for local school districts and public colleges and universities, distributed through existing state and federal formulas.
- Title I: $12.4 billion to help close the achievement gap and enable disadvantaged students to reach their potential.
- $13 billion for Special Education/IDEA to improve educational outcomes for disabled children.
- Pell Grants: $13.9 billion to increase the Pell Grant maximum award and pay for increases in program costs resulting from increased eligibility and higher Pell Grant awards.
- $3.4 billion for job training including state formula grants for adult, dislocated worker and youth programs.
Stimulus promotes science
- National Science Foundation Research: $1.2 billion total for NSF including: $1 billion to help America compete globally; $150 million for scientific infrastructure; and $50 million for competitive grants to improve the quality of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education.
Stimulus package helps children
- Child Care Development Block Grant: $2 billion to provide quality child care services for an additional 300,000 children in low-income families.
- Head Start & Early Head Start: $1.05 billion to allow an additional 66,000 children to participate in this program, which provides development, educational, health, nutritional, social and other activities that prepare children to succeed in school.
- IDEA Early Childhood Education: $500 million for formula grants to help states serve children with disabilities age 2 and younger.
The complete stimulus package summary is available from the United States Senate Committee on Appropriations' Web site.
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