Howard University would receive $240 million, a $3 million increase above 2002 funding.
Some K-12 priorities also would get more funds. Title I grants to schools would increase by $1.4 billion, to $11.7 billion. Both the administration and Congress have targeted this program to help support the new K-12 law, the No Child Left Behind Act. Another increase is targeted for Head Start, which would get $6.6 billion, an increase of $130 million.
To help pay for Bush administration priorities, Congress did include a small across-the-board cut of .65 percent in the education bill. As a result, some programs with level funding could find their budgets shaved slightly when federal dollars reach states and localities.
The budget will carry programs through Sept. 30. Lawmakers already are holding hearings on the 2004 budget plan that Bush submitted in early February.
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