A Cut for Schools, a First for Bush: "most antistudent, antieducation budget since the Republicans tried to abolish the Department of Education"

The New York Times > National > A Cut for Schools, a First for Bush: "A Cut for Schools, a First for Bush | ANNE E. KORNBLUT | Published: February 8, 2005

For the first time in his administration, President Bush is proposing a net reduction in financing for the Department of Education, seeking to reduce its budget by about 1 percent, to $56 billion, for the 2006 fiscal year.

About $4.7 billion would be redirected from 64 education programs to finance other initiatives, mainly aimed at high school students, special education and college loan financing, according to the budget summary issued yesterday.
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Democrats pounced on the spending plan, however, with a longstanding complaint that No Child Left Behind had been insufficiently financed. Senator Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts, the ranking Democrat on the Senate committee that oversees education, called the proposal "the most antistudent, antieducation budget since the Republicans tried to abolish the Department of Education."