Administration Asks More Education Aid in Change of Course
The Reagan Administration is reversing course by calling for more federal spending on education, including $300 million more to tutor poor youngsters and a tax break for parents who use U.S. savings bonds for their children’s college tuition, Administration sources said today.
After being rebuffed last year in an attempt to slash education funding, the President will ask Congress for a record Education Department budget of nearly $21 billion for fiscal 1989, the sources said.
The education budget, which was less than $15 billion when Reagan took office, has been growing on a tide of bipartisan congressional support in recent years. It was fixed at $20.1 billion for fiscal 1988 in the budget compromise Congress enacted two weeks ago.
That represented a $650-million gain over fiscal 1987, and $6.1 billion more than Reagan requested for the department just one year ago.
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