A r c h i v e d  I n f o r m a t i o n

1. Goals 2000: Help states and schools raise academic standards and student achievement

• PRESIDENT CLINTON'S 10-YEAR BUDGET: Increase to $750 million in FY 1996, supporting improvements for over 8 million children in 16,000 schools. By FY 2002, funding would increase to $896 million, supporting improvements for over 44 million children in 85,000 schools.

• REPUBLICAN CUTS: Eliminate all funding for education reform.

2. Education for disadvantaged students: Help low-income students achieve high standards.

• PRESIDENT CLINTON'S 10-YEAR BUDGET: Increase by $573 million over the last 2 years; increase by $302 million in 1996, serving as many as 300,000 more children in 1996 alone, and providing increases in the future.

• REPUBLICAN CUTS: Reduce funding by $1.1 billion in FY 1996, cutting 1.1 million children from the program in FY 1996 alone. A freeze at this level would, by 2002, cut an additional 600,000 children from the program.

3. Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities

• PRESIDENT CLINTON'S 10-YEAR BUDGET: Fund at $500 million per year, providing safer, more drug-free learning environments for 39 million children in 14,000 school districts.

• REPUBLICAN CUTS: Reduce funding to $200 million, a 60% cut for the President's request. This would deprive over 23 million students of services next year.

4. Head Start: Comprehensive services for pre-school youth & toddlers to increase school readiness

• PRESIDENT CLINTON'S 10-YEAR BUDGET: Increase FY 1996 funding by 400 million and add 32,000 new Head Start slots for children in 1996, and a total 50,000 new slots by 2002.

• REPUBLICAN CUTS: Cuts funding by $135 million from FY 1995 level. 45,000-50,000 children would be cut off current Head Start rosters in 1996 to maintain program quality. Freezing funding at the reduced level would cut off up to 230,000 children below the President's proposed level for 2002.

5. Child Care & Development Block Grant: Child care assistance for working poor families

• PRESIDENT CLINTON'S 10-YEAR BUDGET: Increase funding by $100 million in FY 1996. States could use these funds to serve 70,000-80,000 more children of working poor families.

• REPUBLICAN CUTS: Provides no added funding in FY 1996. 70,000-80,000 fewer children in working-poor families could be served than under the President's proposal.

6. Summer Jobs for disadvantaged young people.

• PRESIDENT CLINTON'S 10-YEAR BUDGET: Funding for about 615,000 jobs for disadvantaged young people in the summer of 1996.

• REPUBLICAN CUTS: Program eliminated beginning in 1996, wiping out job opportunities for some 4.3 million disadvantaged youth over the next 7 years.

7. Job Training for dislocated workers, low-income adults

• PRESIDENT CLINTON'S 10-YEAR BUDGET: Put Skill Grants directly into the hands of disadvantaged and dislocated workers, with 800,000 Skill Grant recipients in 1996. Increase 1995 funding by 40% to $3.1 billion.

• REPUBLICAN CUTS: Cut funding by 50% below the President's request, and 25% below 1995.

8. AmeriCorps: College Aid for National Service

• PRESIDENT CLINTON'S 10-YEAR BUDGET: Expand by $242 million to provide nearly 50,000 opportunities for community service and college aid, and 580,000 youth (K-12) other service opportunities.

• REPUBLICAN CUTS: Eliminated. Over 4.3 million service opportunities for youth in their communities abolished over 7 years.

9. ALL EDUCATION AND TRAINING (Budget Function 500)

• PRESIDENT CLINTON'S 10-YEAR BUDGET: Increase education, training and aid to students by $40 billion in discretionary outlays over 7 years.
• REPUBLICAN CUTS: The budget resolution cuts outlays for education and training by $36 billion including $10 billion in loan benefits to students

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