[AAACE-NLA] Funding Update

[David Rosen]

Forwarded from the NIFL-Family list

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> From: "Tony Peyton" <tpeyton at famlit.org>
> Date: Thu Jul 8, 2004  11:27:49  AM US/Eastern
> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-family at literacy.nifl.gov>
> Subject: [NIFL-FAMILY:1884] Update
> Reply-To: nifl-family at nifl.gov
>
> This morning the House Labor/HHS/Education Appropriations Subcommittee 
> made
> their fiscal year 2005 funding recommendations.  It included the 
> following:
>
> Even Start -- $246.9 million (same as FY 2004)
> Adult Education State Grants -- $574,372,000 (same as FY 2004)
> Head Start -- $6.9 billion ($123 million increase over FY 2004)
>
> To see a full report on their action this morning, visit
> http://appropriations.house.gov/
>
> The full Appropriations Committee may consider this bill as early as 
> next
> week.  The Senate Labor/HHS/Education Appropriations Subcommittee has 
> yet to
> schedule when they will consider their measure.
>
> Tony Peyton
> National Center for Family Literacy
> 325 W. Main Street, Suite 300
> Louisville, KY 40202-4237
> (502) 584-1133 x.126
> fax - (502) 584-0172
> tpeyton at famlit.org
>