ALAWON: American Library Association Washington Office Newsline Volume 9, Number 101 December 19, 2000 In this issue: Appropriations Final Numbers Available! In the massive omnibus appropriations bill passed by Congress on December 15, there are many increases in education programs. In addition, in the Labor Health and Human Services and Education appropriations bill, part of the omnibus bill, there are two pieces of authorizing language, one on early childhood education and one on physical education. Following is a chart of funding numbers for FY2001. The Administration won some major concessions from a Congress unwilling in past years to go along with any funding for school renovation, and in this, the last year of the Clinton Administration, funded school renovation and repair at $1,200,000,000, with $3,250,000 of that sum to be spent on rural schools. Funding was also given for the third year of class size reduction, $473 million for FY2001 and an advance for FY2002 of $1.6 billion. In the ALAWON of December 15, library programs total was incorrectly stated. The total is $207,219,000. This is a significant increase of around $13.5 million from FY2000 level. But the total number includes $39,219,000 in set-asides. The set- asides list follows at the end of this e-mail. Technology programs (ESEA III) total was $450 million, which includes technology innovation challenge grants at $136.3 million and Star schools at $59.3 million. Also increased was the 21st Century community learning centers at $845.6 million. Community- based technology centers, a small program of $32.5 million in FY2000 was increased to $64.9 million for FY2001. Continuing a process from last year's appropriations, Congress split allocations for ESEA Title VI, the large block grant into $100 million for FY2001 and $285 million into the next fiscal year, showing a total of $385 million. The Reading Excellence program was also split into two years, $91 million for FY2001 and $195 million for the next fiscal, for a total of $286 million. Pell Grants were increased so that the maximum pell award now will be $3,750 per student up from $3,300 in FY2000. College Work Study was also increased to $1,011,000. Adult literacy state grants were increased to $540 million. Because the legislation was finalized so late into the next fiscal year, many of the grant programs will have later deadlines. Subsequent ALAWONs will issue grant alerts as they occur, but information can also be found at the Department of Education web site, www.ed.gov. LIBRARY PROGRAMS (amounts in thousands) FY2001 Budget Request House Senate Final GPO Superintendent of Documents 34,500 24,000 30,300 27,954 Library of Congress 428,100 390,103 399,006 412,300 Library Services & Technology Act 173,000 170,000 168,000 207,219 National Agricultural Library 22,700 19,000 19,000 20,400 National Commission on Libraries & Info. Science 1,495 1,495 1,495 1,495 National Library of Medicine (includes MLAA) 224,942 256,281 256,953 246,801 LIBRARY-RELATED PROGRAMS (amounts in thousands) Adult Education & Literacy 555,500 490,500 490,500 540,000 ESEA title I, Education for Disadvantaged 9,149,500 8,817,000 8,986,800 8,602,000 ESEA title I-B, Even Start 150,000 250,000 185,000 259,000 ESEA title II-A, Eisenhower professional development (Federal activities) 0 23,000 23,300 230,000 ESEA title II-B, Eisenhower professional development (State grants) 0 0 435,000 485,000,000 ESEA title III, Educational Technology 903,000 905,000 794,500 872,096,000 Technology Literacy Challenge 450,000 517,000 425,000 450,000 Star Schools - part B 0 45,000 43,000 59,318 ESEA title VI, Innovative education program strategies (State grants) 0 365,700 3.1 billion 385,000 ESEA title X-I, 21st Century Community Learning Centers 1 Billion 600,000 600,000 846,000 Request House Senate Final Special Education (IDEA) state grants 6,368,800 6,550,200 7,353,100 6,340,000 Educational Research 198,600 168,600 178,600 185,567 Educational Statistics 84,000 68,000 68,000 80,000 Educational Assessment 42,500 40,000 40,000 40,000 HEA title III, Institutional Development 294,500 328,500 298,500 332,500 HEA title IV-C, College Work-Study 1,011,000 1,011,000 1,011,000 1,011,000 HEA title VI, International Education 73,022 78,022 73,022 78,022 HEA title X-A, Postsecondary Education Improvement Fund 137,150 145,000 145,152 349,000 Inexpensive Book Distribution (RIF) 20,000 21,000 23,000 23,000 Reading Excellence Act 286,0001 260,000 286,000 286,000 IMLS Museum Grants 33,000 24,300 24,900 24,907 NTIA Information Infrastructure Grants (TOP) 45,000 15,500 15,500 45,500 National Archives & Records Administration 209,393 2 195,119 209,393 209,393 National Endowment for the Arts 150,000 98,000 105,000 102,656 National Endowment for the Humanities 150,000 115,000 120,000 115,656 National Historical Publications & Records Commission 6,000 6,000 6,450 6,450 1 Contains forward funding with $91 million to be spent in 2001 and $195 million forward funding to 2002 2 Another $22 million was appropriated for the establishment of the Records Center Revolving Fund Set-asides: $1,000,000 to the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C., $700,000 to the University of Idaho Institute for the Historic Study of Jazz, $2,600,000 to Southeast Missouri State University River Campus and Museum, $900,000 to the Heritage Harbor Museum in Rhode Island, $500,000 to the Alaska Native Heritage Center, $576,000 to the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, $925,000 to the Please Touch Museum, $250,000 to the Pittsburgh Children's Museum, $510,000 to the Temple University Library, $1,800,000 to Franklin Pierce College in New Hampshire, $500,000 to the Louisville Zoo in Kentucky, $150,000 to the Oregon Historical Society, $1,200,000 to the Mississippi River Museum and Discovery Center in Dubuque, Iowa, $650,000 to the Salisbury House Foundation in Des Moines, Iowa, $150,000 to the History Center for the Linn County Historical Museum in Iowa, $4,000,000 to the Newsline for the Blind, of which $100,000 to the Iowa Newsline for the Blind and $100,000 to the West Virginia Newsline for the Blind, $1,000,000 to the Clay Center for the Arts and Sciences, $650,000 to Bishops Museum in Hawaii, $500,000 to the Wisconsin Maritime Museum, $250,000 to the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles, $400,000 to the Perkins Geology Museum at the University of Vermont, $400,000 to the Walt Whitman Cultural Arts Center in Camden, New Jersey, $400,000 to the Plainfield Public Library in Plainfield, New Jersey, $150,000 to the Ducktown Arts District in Atlantic City, New Jersey, $400,000 to the Lake Champlain Science Center in Vermont, $250,000 to the Foundation for the Arts, Music, and Entertainment of Shreveport-Bossier, Inc., $100,000 to Bryant College in Rhode Island, $120,000 to the Fenton Historical Museum of Jamestown, New York, $921,000 to the Mariners' Museum in Newport News, Virginia, $461,000 to DuPage County Children's Museum in Naperville, Illinois, $369,000 to the National Baseball Hall of Fame Library in Cooperstown, New York, $92,000 to the City of Corona, Riverside, California, $6,000 to the City of Murrieta, California Public Library, $1,382,000 to the Sierra Madre, California Public Library, $23,000 to the Brooklyn Public Library in Brooklyn, New York, $46,000 to the New York Public Library Staten Island branch, $266,000 to the Edward H. Nabb Research Center at Salisbury State University in Salisbury, Maryland, $461,000 to Texas Tech University, $230,000 to the City of Ontario, California Public Library, $461,000 to the Southern Oregon University in Ashland, Oregon, $1,106,000 to Christopher Newport University in Newport News, Virginia, $128,000 shall be awarded to the Nassau County Museum of Art in Roslyn Harbor, New York, $850,000 to the Children's Museum of Los Angeles, $43,000 to Sumter County Library in Sumter, South Carolina, $298,000 to Columbia College Center for Black Music Research in Chicago, Illinois, $723,000 to Old Sturbridge Village in Sturbridge, Massachusetts, $723,000 to New Bedford Whaling Museum in Massachusetts, $298,000 to Mystic Seaport Museum of America and the Sea in Connecticut, $468,000 to the City of Houston Public Library, $128,000 to the Roberson Museum and Science Center in Binghampton, New York, $850,000 to Berman Museum of Art at Ursinus College in Collegeville, Pennsylvania, $680,000 to AMISTAD Research Center at Tulane University, $2,125,000 shall be awarded to Silas Bronson Library in Waterbury, Connecticut, $213,000 to Fitchburg Art Museum in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, $128,000 to North Carolina Museum of Life and Science, $2,435,000 to New York Public Library, $85,000 to the New York Botanical Garden in Bronx, New York, $170,000 to George Eastman House in Rochester, New York, $425,000 to The National Aviary in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, $723,000 to the George C. 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