U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

Fiscal Year 2022 

Budget Summary

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

FISCAL YEAR 2022 BUDGET SUMMARY

TABLE OF CONTENTS

I. SUMMARY OF THE 2022 BUDGET REQUEST........................................................................................... 6

II. THE 2022 EDUCATION BUDGET BY PROGRAM AREA............................................................................ 9

A. Elementary and Secondary Education ...................................................................................... 9

Overview ................................................................................................................................ 9

Title I Grants to Local Educational Agencies ...................................................................... 10

Title I Equity Grants ............................................................................................................ 10

Full-Service Community Schools (FSCS) ........................................................................... 11

21st Century Community Learning Centers ........................................................................ 11

Supporting Effective Instruction State Grants ..................................................................... 11

Teacher and School Leader Incentive Grants ...................................................................... 12

Supporting Effective Educator Development (SEED) ........................................................ 12

Answer the Call—Supporting In-Demand Credentials for Teachers .................................. 12

School Leader Recruitment and support .............................................................................. 13

Expanding Opportunities for Teacher Leadership and Development .................................. 13

School-Based Health Professionals ..................................................................................... 13

School Safety National Activities ........................................................................................ 14

Student Support and Academic Enrichment Grants ............................................................ 14

Climate Resilient Schools .................................................................................................... 14

K-12 Infrastructure .............................................................................................................. 15

English Language Acquisition ............................................................................................. 15

Promise Neighborhoods ....................................................................................................... 15

Fostering Diverse Schools ................................................................................................... 16

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Magnet Schools Assistance ................................................................................................. 16

Training and Advisory Services .......................................................................................... 16

Charter Schools Grants ........................................................................................................ 17

Migrant Education ............................................................................................................... 17

Neglected and Delinquent Education .................................................................................. 17

Education for Homeless Children and Youths..................................................................... 18

Rural Education ................................................................................................................... 18

Indian Education .................................................................................................................. 18

Native Hawaiian Education ................................................................................................. 19

Alaska Native Education ..................................................................................................... 19

State Assessments ................................................................................................................ 20

Education Innovation and Research .................................................................................... 20

Comprehensive Literacy Development Grants .................................................................... 20

Innovative Approaches to Literacy ...................................................................................... 21

American History and Civics Education.............................................................................. 21

Arts in Education ................................................................................................................. 21

Javits Gifted and Talented Education .................................................................................. 21

Ready to Learn Programming (RTL) ................................................................................... 22

Statewide Family Engagement Centers ............................................................................... 22

Comprehensive Centers ....................................................................................................... 22

Impact Aid ........................................................................................................................... 23

Supplemental Education Grants ........................................................................................... 24

B. Special Education and Rehabilitation Services ...................................................................... 25

Overview .............................................................................................................................. 25

Grants to States .................................................................................................................... 26

Preschool Grants .................................................................................................................. 26

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Grants for Infants and Families ........................................................................................... 26

State Personnel Development .............................................................................................. 27

Technical Assistance and Dissemination ............................................................................. 27

Personnel Preparation .......................................................................................................... 27

Parent Information Centers .................................................................................................. 28

Educational Technology, Media, and Materials .................................................................. 28

Special Olympics Education Program ................................................................................. 28

Vocational Rehabilitation State Grants ................................................................................ 29

Client Assistance State Grants ............................................................................................. 29

Training................................................................................................................................ 29

Demonstration and Training ................................................................................................ 30

Supported Employment State Grants ................................................................................... 30

Independent Living Services for Older Blind Individuals ................................................... 30

Protection and Advocacy of Individual Rights .................................................................... 30

Helen Keller National Center for Deaf-Blind Youths and Adults ....................................... 31

Special Institutions for Persons with Disabilities ................................................................ 31

C. Career, Technical and Adult Education.................................................................................. 33

Overview .............................................................................................................................. 33

Career and Technical Education .......................................................................................... 33

Adult Education ................................................................................................................... 34

D. Student Financial Assistance .................................................................................................. 35

Overview .............................................................................................................................. 35

Student Aid Summary Tables (Budget Authority) .............................................................. 37

Aid Available to Students .................................................................................................... 38

Number of Student Aid Awards .......................................................................................... 39

Federal Pell Grant Program ................................................................................................. 40

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Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants ...................................................... 41

Federal Work-Study ............................................................................................................. 41

Iraq and Afghanistan Service Grants ................................................................................... 42

TEACH Grants .................................................................................................................... 42

Federal Family Education Loans and Direct Loans ............................................................. 44

New Loan Volume ............................................................................................................... 45

E. Higher Education Programs ................................................................................................... 47

Overview .............................................................................................................................. 47

Aid for Institutional Development ....................................................................................... 49

Aid for Hispanic-Serving Institutions .................................................................................. 51

International Education and Foreign Language Studies (IEFLS) ........................................ 52

Tribally Controlled Postsecondary Career and Technical Institutions ................................ 52

Special Programs for Migrant Students ............................................................................... 53

Federal TRIO Programs ....................................................................................................... 53

Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs (GEAR UP) ......... 54

Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN) ................................................ 54

Transition Programs for Students with Intellectual Disabilities into Higher Education 

(TPSID) ........................................................................................................................... 54

Child Care Access Means Parents In School ....................................................................... 54

Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education ...................................................... 55

Teacher Quality Partnership (TQP) ..................................................................................... 55

Augustus F. Hawkins Centers of Excellence ....................................................................... 56

Health Professionals of the future ........................................................................................ 56

Completion Grants ............................................................................................................... 57

Community College Infrastructure ...................................................................................... 57

Howard University ............................................................................................................... 58

Academic Facilities ............................................................................................................. 58

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F. Institute of Education Sciences ............................................................................................... 59

Overview .............................................................................................................................. 59

Research, Development, and Dissemination ....................................................................... 59

Statistics ............................................................................................................................... 59

Regional Educational Laboratories ...................................................................................... 60

Assessment .......................................................................................................................... 60

Research in Special Education ............................................................................................. 60

Statewide Longitudinal Data Systems ................................................................................. 61

Special Education Studies and Evaluations ......................................................................... 61

G. Departmental Management ..................................................................................................... 62

Overview .............................................................................................................................. 62

Salaries and Expenses (S&E) Overview .............................................................................. 63

III. APPENDIX ............................................................................................................................................. 66

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“This proposal reflects the Biden-Harris Administration’s commitment to ensuring that student 

success remains at the heart of the Department of Education’s work. It calls on Congress to 

prioritize the physical and mental health of students and close education equity gaps, especially 

in underserved communities. We need to focus on not only recovering from the pandemic but also 

look towards our students’ education after the pandemic to ensure there are improved resources 

to build our education system back better than before. This budget ensures all students have access 

to high-quality, affordable postsecondary education, while also improving career pathways for 

students of all ages and levels.” 

-Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona 

I. SUMMARY OF THE 2022 BUDGET REQUEST

The fiscal year 2022 Budget Request makes good on President Biden’s campaign commitment to reverse 

years of underinvestment in Federal education programs and begins to address the significant inequities 

that millions of students—disproportionately students of color—and teachers confront every day in 

underserved schools across America. These inequities in opportunity and access continue to be experienced 

by students pursuing higher education and career and technical education credentials as well. While the 

main challenge over the past year has been safely re-opening schools for in-person instruction, the COVID19 pandemic has also changed the education landscape moving forward. The fiscal year 2022 Budget 

Request provides the resources to build our schools back better, to ensure that the education our students 

receive in a post-COVID environment is safer, more equitable and puts all students on a path to success. 

To this end, the fiscal year 2022 Budget Request makes historic investments in high-poverty schools, boosts 

support for children with disabilities, prioritizes the physical and mental well-being of students, supports 

the recruitment, training, and retention of highly qualified teachers and school leaders, and proposes 

postsecondary investments that improve affordability and increase access and completion.

Overall, the President’s fiscal year 2022 Budget includes $102.8 billion in new discretionary budget 

authority for the Department of Education, a $29.8 billion, or 41 percent increase above the fiscal year 2021 

appropriation. The Budget also includes close to $50 billion in new mandatory budget authority in fiscal 

year 2022 tied to proposals included in the President’s American Jobs Plan and American Families Plan. 

The fiscal year 2022 Request includes the following key initiatives: 

Education for the Disadvantaged

The fiscal year 2022 Request includes $20 billion for a new Title I Equity Grants program as part of 

President Biden’s commitment to dramatically increase funding for Title I schools. The new funds would 

help close the estimated $23 billion annual funding gap between majority white and majority non-white 

school districts, as well as gaps in the allocation of State and local education funds to districts serving high 

concentrations of students from low-income backgrounds and districts enrolling a majority of students from 

wealthier families. This additional funding, on top of the $16.5 billion in funding for the existing program, 

would be the single largest year-over-year increase since the inception of Title I and would help ensure 

teachers are paid competitively, students have equitable access to and succeed in rigorous coursework, and 

three and four year-old children have access to high-quality preschool. 

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Special Education

To ensure that children with disabilities have the opportunity to thrive, the Budget includes $16 billion, a 

$2.7 billion increase over 2021 enacted, for Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) grants that 

would support special education and related services for more than 7.6 million Pre-K through 12 students. 

This is a significant first step on the path to fully funding IDEA. The Budget also provides $732 million 

for early intervention services for infants and toddlers with disabilities, funding services that have a proven 

record of improving academic and developmental outcomes. The $250 million increase would be paired 

with reforms to expand access to these services for underserved children, including children of color and 

children from low-income families.

Physical and Mental Well-Being of Students

The fiscal year 2022 Request includes $1 billion for a new School-Based Health Professionals grant 

program to support the goal of doubling the number of counselors, nurses, and mental health professionals 

in schools. While funding provided by the American Rescue Plan has provided for short-term term student 

social, emotional, and mental health needs, the fiscal year 2022 Request is intended to bridge the long-term 

gap between the number of school-based health service providers needed to provide daily supports that 

encompass social and emotional learning, mental wellness, and positive connections between students and 

adults and the number of such providers currently serving in our schools, particularly in high-poverty LEAs 

and schools. To provide additional support for students, the fiscal year 2022 Request provides $443 million, 

an increase of $413 million for Full-Service Community Schools, which play a critical role in providing 

comprehensive wrap-around services to students and their families, from afterschool, to adult education 

opportunities, and health and nutrition services. 

Teacher Training and Support

Acknowledging the importance of recruiting, training, and retaining qualified teachers, the fiscal year 2022 

Request includes key investments in teacher training and support. These investments include discretionary 

increases of $80 million for Teacher Quality Partnerships to address teaching shortages, improve training 

and supports for teachers, and boost teacher diversity, $160 million for Personnel Preparation to ensure that 

there are adequate numbers of personnel with the skills and knowledge necessary to help children with 

disabilities succeed educationally, and $20 million for a new Hawkins Centers of Excellence program 

designed to increase the quality and number of new minority teachers prepared at a subset of high-priority 

institutions of higher education. These discretionary increases are complemented by mandatory proposals 

included in the American Families Plan (AFP) that would provide an additional $280 million for Teacher 

Quality Partnerships, $90 million for Personnel Preparation, and $40 million for Hawkins Centers of 

Excellence in fiscal year 2022. In addition, the AFP Supporting In-Demand Credentials for Teachers 

proposal would make a one-time investment of $1.6 billion to support additional certifications at no cost 

for more than 100,000 educators in high-demand areas like special education, bilingual education, career 

and technical education, and science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. The AFP also would 

double TEACH grants from $4,000 to $8,000 for future teachers while earning their degrees. Finally, the 

AFP would provide $200 million in mandatory funds for a new Expanding Opportunities for Teacher 

Leadership and Development program to support opportunities for experienced and effective teachers to 

lead and have a greater impact on their school community while remaining in the classroom (and be 

compensated for additional responsibilities) through such activities as high-quality teacher mentorship 

programs and job-embedded coaching. 

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Postsecondary Access and Affordability

The fiscal year 2022 Request provides $3 billion in additional discretionary funding to increase the 

maximum Pell Grant by $400—the largest one-time increase since 2009. This increase, together with the 

$1,475 Pell Grant increase in the American Families Plan, represents a significant first step to deliver on 

the President’s goal to double the grant. The request would also ensure “DREAMers,” students who are 

Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipients, are eligible for Pell Grants if they meet the standard 

requirements for that aid. In addition, as first proposed in the American Families Plan, the Request would 

provide Americans two years of free community college by partnering with States and tribes to waive 

tuition and fees for students, while promoting key reforms to help more students complete and help meet 

the demands of a growing global economy. The American Families plan would also provide two years of 

subsidized tuition for students from families earning less than $125,000 enrolled in a 4-year Historically 

Black College and University (HBCU), Tribal College and University (TCCU), or Minority-Serving 

Institution (MSI).

Career Pathways

The fiscal year 2022 Request includes an increase of $108 million in Career and Technical Education 

National Programs to support an innovation grants initiative focused on youth work-based learning and 

industry credential attainment, as well as related evaluation and technical assistance activities. In addition, 

the American Families Plan includes $1.0 billion in mandatory funding in fiscal year 2022 to expand career 

pathways for middle and high school students, particularly in underserved communities.

Postsecondary Institutional and Student Supports

The fiscal year 2022 Request increases institutional capacity and student supports at HBCUs, TCCUs, 

MSIs, and low-resourced institutions, including community colleges. The Request provides a discretionary 

increase of more than $600 million over the fiscal year 2021 enacted level for these programs. In addition, 

the Request includes over $7 billion in mandatory funding in fiscal year 2022 (and over $80 billion over 

ten years) from the American Jobs and Families Plans, including tripling existing mandatory funding to 

HBCUs, TCCUs, and MSIs; a new mandatory State formula grant program to improve college retention 

and completion rates; and funding to create or expand health care graduate pathways at HBCUs, TCCUs, 

and MSIs. 

Fostering Diverse Schools

Recognizing that too many of the Nation’s schools are still segregated by race and class, the fiscal year 

2022 Request includes $100 million for a new grant program to help communities develop and implement 

strategies that would build more diverse student bodies.

 

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II. THE 2022 EDUCATION BUDGET BY PROGRAM AREA

A. ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION

OVERVIEW

President Biden’s fiscal year 2022 Request for Elementary and Secondary Education programs addresses 

longstanding equity gaps in our education system, beginning with State and local education finance systems 

that systematically underfund school districts and schools that enroll high proportions of students of color 

and students from low-income families; a teacher pay gap that undermines the recruitment and retention of 

effective teachers, disproportionately impacting students in high-minority and high-poverty schools; a lack 

of access to and preparation for rigorous coursework that set students up for college and careers; and the 

need for high-quality, universal preschool programs, regardless of a child’s race, zip code, or family 

income. The following major investments would help close these equity gaps and help ensure that all 

students—especially students from low-income backgrounds and students of color in underserved 

communities—receive the academic and non-academic supports they need to thrive in school and achieve 

their dreams.

• $20 billion for a new Title I Equity Grants program—part of the President’s commitment to 

dramatically increase funding for Title I students, teachers, and schools—that would help address 

long-standing funding disparities between under-resourced school districts and their wealthier 

counterparts; ensure teachers in Title I schools are paid competitively; support expanded access to 

preschool, and increase preparation for, access to, and success in the rigorous coursework needed 

to prepare for postsecondary education and high-paying, in-demand careers. 

• $1 billion for a new School-Based Health Professionals program to support the mental health needs 

of our students and their families by increasing the number of counselors, nurses, and mental health 

professionals in our schools, and building the pipeline for these critical staff, with an emphasis on 

underserved schools. 

• $443 million, an increase of $413 million over the 2021 enacted level, to dramatically expand the 

Full-Service Community Schools program, which recognizes the role of schools as the centers of 

our communities and neighborhoods, and funds efforts to identify and integrate the wide range of 

community-based resources needed to support students and their families, expand learning 

opportunities for students and parents alike, support collaborative leadership and practices, and 

promote the family and community engagement that can help ensure student success.

• $100 million for a new Fostering Diverse Schools program that would help communities develop 

and implement strategies that will build more racially and socioeconomically diverse schools. 

• Critical discretionary and mandatory investments in building a more diverse and effective teacher 

workforce and strengthening school leadership:

o $30 million to reestablish funding for the reauthorized School Leader Recruitment and 

Support program; 

o $132.1 million in discretionary funding for Teacher Quality Partnerships, an increase of 

$80 million over the 2021 level, along with $280 million in mandatory American Families 

Plan (AFP) funding to significantly expand access to teacher residency programs and the 

recruitment and preparation of diverse teacher candidates (see Higher Education Programs); 

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o $1.6 billion in one-time AFP mandatory funds for a new Supporting In-Demand Credentials 

for Teachers State grant program, which would help over 100,000 educators earn additional 

certifications in high-demand areas like special education, bilingual education, career and 

technical education, and STEM; 

o $200 million in AFP mandatory funding for a new Expanding Opportunities for Teacher 

Leadership Development competitive grant program that would allow master teachers to take 

on mentoring and other job-embedded leadership roles—with additional compensation—

while remaining in the classroom; and

o $60 million for newly funded Augustus F. Hawkins Centers of Excellence—$20 million in 

discretionary funding and $40 million in mandatory AFP funds—to help expand the diversity 

of the teacher workforce through competitive grants to HBCUs, TCCUs, and other MSIs to 

support teacher preparation (see Higher Education Programs). 

• Finally, the American Jobs Plan would provide $10 billion in mandatory funding in 2022, and 

$50 billion over five years, for grants to upgrade existing school facilities and build new public 

elementary and secondary schools to help close the opportunity for students of color and students 

from low-income families in high-poverty schools, who disproportionately attend school in 

buildings that are run-down, unsafe, and pose health risks. 

TITLE I GRANTS TO LOCAL EDUCATIONAL AGENCIES

2020 2021

2022

Request

BA in millions $16,309.8 $16,536.8 $16,536.8

Title I Grants to LEAs provides supplemental education funding, especially in communities of concentrated 

poverty, for local programs that provide extra academic support to help students in high-poverty schools 

meet challenging State academic standards. The Request maintains strong support for the Title I program, 

which serves an estimated 25 million students in nearly 90 percent of school districts and nearly 60 percent 

of all public schools. LEAs can use Title I funds flexibly for locally determined programs and interventions 

across a broad range of areas, including through schoolwide programs that allow Federal and other funds 

to be consolidated and leveraged for comprehensive school reforms. 

TITLE I EQUITY GRANTS

2020 2021

2022

Request

BA in millions — — $20,000.0

This new program would build on and complement the current Title I Grants to Local Educational Agencies 

program by directly addressing longstanding inequities in our education system, including State and local 

funding systems that favor wealthier districts over districts with concentrated poverty, competitive pay for 

teachers; preparation for, access to, and success in rigorous coursework; and expanded high quality 

preschool opportunities. 

Funds would be allocated through a new formula that would direct a larger share of resources to the highest 

poverty school districts than the current Title I formulas, while also creating incentives for more equitable 

State and local education funding systems. State and local plan requirements would include expanded 

reporting, goal setting, and progress monitoring related to more equitable State and local funding systems, 

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competitive compensation for teachers, improved access to and success in rigorous coursework, and 

universal pre-K. States and school districts also would be required to use a portion of their grants to support 

competitive pay compared to similarly qualified professionals and to expand access to and success in 

advanced coursework in high school, including in the foundational skills and gateway courses that lead to 

success in this coursework. 

FULL-SERVICE COMMUNITY SCHOOLS (FSCS)

2020 2021

2022

Request

BA in millions $25.0 $30.0 $443.0

FSCS makes competitive 5-year grants to school districts—in partnership with community-based 

organizations, nonprofit organizations, or other public or private entities—to provide comprehensive 

academic, social, and health services in school settings for students, students’ family members, and 

community members by integrating existing school and community programs and implementing 

coordinated strategies that can impact neighborhoods with high rates of poverty, childhood obesity, 

academic failure, and involvement of community members in the justice system. The proposed increase

reflects the growing recognition that students and family in high-poverty communities need comprehensive 

social, emotional, and mental health services to support improved academic outcomes, and that schools are 

ideally situated to provide such supports in these communities. In particular, the disruptions to education 

caused by the COVID-19 pandemic provided a vivid demonstration of the importance of our schools to the 

social and economic fabric of our communities, both during the pandemic and as we work toward a full 

recovery. The request would support an expanded cohort of grantees that would up to 2.5 million students, 

family members, and community members in an estimated 800 new community schools. 

21ST CENTURY COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTERS

2020 2021

2022

Request

BA in millions $1,249.7 $1,259.7 $1,309.7

This program enables States, through competitive subgrants to school districts or community-based 

organizations, to support centers that provide additional student learning opportunities through before- and 

after-school programs and summer school programs aimed at improving student academic outcomes. 

Centers, which also may offer training in parenting skills and family literacy services, must target their 

services primarily to students who attend schools identified for improvement under Title I of the ESEA or 

other schools determined by local educational agencies (LEAs) to be in need of assistance. 

SUPPORTING EFFECTIVE INSTRUCTION STATE GRANTS

2020 2021

2022

Request

BA in millions $2,131.8 $2,143.1 $2,148.6

This program, authorized under ESEA’s Title II-A, provides formula grants to State educational agencies 

(SEAs), which then subgrant most funds to local educational agencies, to support activities designed to 

increase student achievement by improving the effectiveness of teachers, principals, and other school 

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leaders; increase the number of teachers, principals, and other school leaders who are effective in improving 

student academic achievement in schools; provide students from low-income backgrounds and students of 

color greater access to effective teachers, principals, and other school leaders; and reduce class size. SEAs 

and LEAs have flexibility to carry out a wide variety of activities based on identified needs. 

TEACHER AND SCHOOL LEADER INCENTIVE GRANTS

2020 2021

2022

Request

BA in millions $200.0 $200.0 $200.0

The Teacher and School Leader Incentive Grants (TSL) program makes competitive awards to help 

develop, implement, improve, or expand human capital management systems or performance-based 

compensation systems. Allowable uses of funds include implementing career advancement opportunities 

for effective teachers, principals, and other school leaders; improving LEA processes for recruiting, 

selecting, placing, supporting, and retaining effective teachers, principals, and other school leaders in highneed schools; and providing principals with the tools needed to make school-level decisions that build highperforming instructional leadership teams. New awards would be likely to be focused on providing 

opportunities for educators to take on leadership roles in their schools and districts, and be compensated for 

those additional responsibilities, and to promote greater diversity in the educator workforce. 

SUPPORTING EFFECTIVE EDUCATOR DEVELOPMENT (SEED)

2020 2021

2022

Request

BA in millions $80.0 $80.0 $80.0

The SEED program provides competitive grants to institutions of higher education, national nonprofit 

entities, and the Bureau of Indian Education to support evidence-based professional development activities, 

including those leading to an advanced credential, as well as non-traditional preparation and certification 

pathways that allow teachers, principals, or other school leaders to obtain employment in traditionally 

underserved local educational agencies. The request would support new awards that support President 

Biden’s equity agenda and commitment to evidence-based practices. 

ANSWER THE CALL—SUPPORTING IN-DEMAND CREDENTIALS FOR TEACHERS

2020 2021

2022

Request

American Families Plan Mandatory BA in millions — — $1,600.0

Answer the Call would provide grants to States to allow eligible public school teachers to obtain additional 

certifications at no-cost in high-demand subject areas, such as special education, bilingual education, and 

STEM education. This one-time request is part of the American Families Plan’s $9 billion investment (over 

ten years) in America’s teachers, addressing shortages, improving training and supports for teachers, and 

boosting teacher diversity. Funds could also be used to allow teachers to earn additional certifications 

associated with greater teacher effectiveness.

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SCHOOL LEADER RECRUITMENT AND SUPPORT

2020 2021

2022

Request

BA in millions — — $30.0

The School Leader Recruitment and Support program, which was last funded in 2017, provides competitive 

grants LEAs, SEAs, the BIE, or consortia of one of those entities with nonprofit organizations or IHEs to

improve the recruitment, preparation, placement, support, and retention of effective principals or other 

school leaders in high-need schools. Funds would support grants for high-quality professional development 

for principals, other school leaders, high-quality training for aspiring principals and school leaders.

EXPANDING OPPORTUNITIES FOR TEACHER LEADERSHIP AND DEVELOPMENT

2020 2021

2022

Request

American Families Plan Mandatory BA in millions — — $200.0

This program would support opportunities for experienced and effective teachers to lead and have a greater 

impact on their school community while remaining in the classroom (and be compensated for additional 

responsibilities). Examples of such teacher leadership include high-quality teacher mentorship programs 

and job-embedded coaching in areas such as social and emotional learning, data-driven decision-making, 

teacher development, and family engagement. This request is part of the American Families Plan’s 

$9 billion investment (over ten years) in American teachers, addressing shortages, improving training and 

supports for teachers, and boosting teacher diversity. 

SCHOOL-BASED HEALTH PROFESSIONALS

2020 2021

2022

Request

BA in millions — — $1,000.0

The Administration requests $1 billion in first-time funding for the proposed School-Based Health 

Professionals (SBHP) program in fiscal year 2022, consistent with President Biden’s commitment to double 

the number of school counselors, nurses, social workers, and school psychologists in LEAs and schools 

over the next decade. Funds would be allocated to SEAs on the basis of shares of funding received under 

Title I, Part A of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA). SEAs would be permitted to 

reserve up to 15 percent of their allocations to address shortages of health professionals by establishing 

partnerships with institutions of higher education to recruit, prepare, and place graduate students in schoolbased health fields in high-need LEAs. SEAs would award at least 80 percent of their allocations to LEAs 

based on Title I shares. LEAs would give priority to Title I eligible schools and must demonstrate that 

funds are used to close gaps in the recommended ratios of students to health professionals. Grants to LEAs 

would be used to pay recruitment costs, salaries, retention efforts such as additional supports, and related 

personnel costs. SEAs would be required to provide a 25 percent non-Federal match for grants received 

under the SBHP program; the SEA match would be used only for subgrants to LEAs. LEAs also would be 

required to provide a 25 percent match for their formula awards, and may use up to 20 percent of funds 

received under Part A of Titles I, II, and IV of the ESEA, as well as funds received under the American 

Rescue Plan, for this purpose. SEAs would be permitted to waive the matching requirement for highpoverty LEAs that demonstrate need for such a waiver.

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SCHOOL SAFETY NATIONAL ACTIVITIES

2020 2021

2022

Request

BA in millions $105.0 $106.0 $116.0

This program authorizes activities to improve students’ safety and well-being. These include competitive 

grants and other discretionary activities to foster a safe, secure, and drug-free learning environment 

conducive to teaching and learning (inclusive of opioid prevention and mitigation strategies); facilitate 

emergency management and preparedness, as well as recovery from traumatic events; and increase the 

availability of school-based mental health service providers for students. School Safety National Activities 

include Project Prevent, a program of grants to local educational agencies in communities with pervasive 

violence, to break the cycle of violence in those communities. The $10 million increase under the fiscal 

year 2022 request is for Project Prevent and would support the Administration’s Community Violence 

Intervention initiative by investing in projects that incorporate strategies for reducing gun violence through 

tools other than incarceration.

STUDENT SUPPORT AND ACADEMIC ENRICHMENT GRANTS

2020 2021

2022

Request

BA in millions $1,210.0 $1,220.0 $1,220.0

This program provides formula grants to State educational agencies, which then subgrant most funds to 

local educational agencies, to support well-rounded educational opportunities, safe and healthy students, 

and the effective use of technology. The Request would provide resources for improving student 

opportunities and outcomes that can be used flexibly in response to locally identified needs. 

CLIMATE RESILIENT SCHOOLS

2020 2021

2022

Request

BA in millions — — $25.0

President Biden’s American Jobs Plan would invest $50 billion over five years to upgrade and build new 

public schools through direct grants. These funds would help make sure our schools are safe and healthy 

places of teaching and learning for students, teachers, and other education professionals through, for 

example, improved indoor air quality and ventilation and innovative, climate resilient design features, 

including energy efficiency improvements that reduce greenhouse emissions. The proposed Climate 

Resilient Schools supports this proposal by providing competitive grants to LEAs in partnership with 

entities with expertise in safe, healthy, or green building design or construction to support the development 

of model school facility modernization plans that can serve as guides for the effective use of infrastructure 

funds. 

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K-12 INFRASTRUCTURE

2020 2021

2022

Request

American Jobs Plan Mandatory BA in millions — — $10,000.0

The American Jobs Plan would provide $10 billion in mandatory funding in 2022, and $50 billion over 

five years, for grants to upgrade existing school facilities and build new public elementary and secondary 

schools. Too many students, particularly students of color and students from low-income families in highpoverty schools, attend school in buildings that are run-down, unsafe, and pose health risks. The K-12 

Infrastructure program would support job-creating investments in cutting-edge, energy-efficient, resilient, 

and innovative school buildings with technology and labs that will help our educators prepare students to 

be productive workers and valued students. The program also would create better, more efficiently operated 

school facilities that reduce greenhouse gas emissions and provide climate resilient safe havens to gather

during increasingly common natural disaster emergencies.

ENGLISH LANGUAGE ACQUISITION

2020 2021

2022

Request

BA in millions $787.4 $797.4 $917.4

This program awards formula grants to States based on each State’s share of the Nation’s English learners 

(ELs) and recent immigrant students. States must develop, in meaningful consultation with geographically 

diverse districts, statewide entrance and exit procedures for EL status. States also must ensure that districts 

annually assess the English proficiency of the EL students they serve. Schools use this funding to implement 

effective language instruction educational programs designed to help ELs attain English language 

proficiency. The program also awards grants to schools operated predominantly for Native American and 

Alaska Native students and supports national activities, including professional development for teachers of 

ELs and a clearinghouse of research-based information about instructional methods, strategies, and 

programs for ELs. The fiscal year 2022 request includes a $20 million set-aside in National Activities for 

additional support to States in which large numbers of unaccompanied migrant children have been placed 

by the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Refugee Resettlement or that have enrolled 

significant numbers of students displaced from Puerto Rico in recent years.

PROMISE NEIGHBORHOODS

2020 2021

2022

Request

BA in millions $80.0 $81.0 $91.0

This program provides competitive grants to support distressed communities in improving the academic 

and developmental outcomes for children, youth, and their families from birth through college. Funded 

activities are focused on “pipeline services,” which include high-quality early childhood programs; highquality in-school and out-of-school programs; transition support for students at all levels of education and 

workforce preparation; family and community engagement support; job training, internships, and career 

counseling; and social, health, nutrition, and mental health services. The proposed $10 million increase 

reflects the Administration’s priority on expanding community-school partnerships to better meet the 

comprehensive needs of underserved communities. 

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FOSTERING DIVERSE SCHOOLS

2020 2021

2022

Request

BA in millions — — $100.0

The proposed Fostering Diverse Schools program would address the well-documented, persistent negative 

effects of racial isolation and concentrated poverty by supporting voluntary efforts to increase school racial 

and socioeconomic diversity in preschool through grade 12. The program would make competitive awards 

to LEAs—alone, in consortia, or in partnership with State educational agencies—that have significant 

achievement gaps and racial or socioeconomic segregation within or across districts. Program funds would 

support planning grants and, for applicants with well-designed plans, implementation grants to carry out 

activities in those plans, including, for example, open-enrollment or controlled-choice systems that promote 

racial and socioeconomic diversity in schools or weighted lotteries or other student-assignment policies that 

consider the socioeconomic status or neighborhood of residence of students in place of entrance 

examinations or other competitive application reviews. 

MAGNET SCHOOLS ASSISTANCE

2020 2021

2022

Request

BA in millions $107.0 $109.0 $149.0

The Magnet Schools Assistance program provides Federal resources to assist eligible local educational 

agencies in the desegregation of schools by supporting the elimination, reduction, and prevention of racial 

isolation in elementary and secondary schools with substantial proportions of students of color. Grantees 

establish and operate magnet schools that are part of court-ordered, agency-ordered, or federally approved 

voluntary desegregation plans and that offer special curricula or instructional programs that appeal to 

parents and students from diverse backgrounds. The requested increase reflects the Administration’s 

commitment to renewing and expanding efforts to reverse the well-documented, persistent negative 

educational effects of racial isolation and concentrated poverty.

TRAINING AND ADVISORY SERVICES 

2020 2021

2022

Request

BA in millions $6.6 $6.6 $6.6

This program supports four regional Equity Assistance Centers, selected competitively, that provide 

services to school districts on issues related to discrimination based on race, sex, national origin, and 

religion. Typical activities include disseminating information on successful practices and legal 

requirements related to nondiscrimination; providing training to educators to develop their skills in specific 

areas, such as in the identification of bias in instructional materials; and technical assistance on selection of 

instructional programs. The Request would support a new Equity Assistance Center competition, as well 

as the administration and analysis of a final customer satisfaction survey for current grantees.

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CHARTER SCHOOLS GRANTS

2020 2021

2022

Request

BA in millions $440.0 $440.0 $440.0

Through grants to State entities, charter school developers, and charter school management organizations, 

Charter Schools Grants support the startup of new charter schools and the replication and expansion of 

high-quality charter schools serving students in prekindergarten through grade 12. Funds also support 

grants to improve charter schools’ access to facilities and information dissemination and evaluation 

activities. The Request includes appropriations language that would largely maintain the same withinprogram allocations as in fiscal year 2021 but provide the Department greater flexibility to adjust spending 

in response to demand across the program components. The Department also will work to ensure that fiscal 

year 2022 funds support schools that are opened and operated with demonstrated family and community 

support, serve students from diverse racial and socioeconomic backgrounds, provide meaningful access to 

instruction for students with disabilities and English learners, maintain diverse educator workforces, and 

are subject to strong accountability, transparency, and oversight. 

MIGRANT EDUCATION

2020 2021

2022

Request

BA in millions $374.8 $375.6 $375.6

Migrant Education State Grants provide formula-based assistance in meeting the educational needs of 

children of migratory agricultural workers and fishers, including overcoming educational disruption and 

other challenges resulting from repeated moves, so that these students can meet the same academic 

standards expected of all children. During school year 2018-19, 303,739 children were identified as 

eligible under the program. States and local entities provided services to 215,787 migratory children, 93,729 

of whom received services during the summer or intersession periods. The Department uses a portion of 

funding to improve inter- and intra-State coordination of migrant education activities, including State 

exchange of migratory student data records through the Migrant Student Information Exchange system. 

NEGLECTED AND DELINQUENT EDUCATION

2020 2021

2022

Request

BA in millions $47.6 $48.2 $48.2

This program provides formula grants to States to support education services for neglected and delinquent 

children and youth in local and State-run institutions, attending community day programs, and in 

correctional facilities. The Request would help an estimated 63,600 neglected and delinquent students 

continue their studies while in State institutions and prepare them to return to and complete school and 

obtain employment.

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EDUCATION FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN AND YOUTHS

2020 2021

2022

Request

BA in millions $101.5 $106.5 $106.5

This program, which is authorized by the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, as amended, provides 

formula grants to States, which then subgrant most funds to LEAs for services and activities that help 

homeless children enroll in, attend, and succeed in school, such as preschool programs, enriched 

supplemental instruction, before- and after-school programs, transportation, and health care referrals.

Approximately 1.4 million students were identified as homeless in school year 2018-19. 

RURAL EDUCATION

2020 2021

2022

Request

BA in millions $185.8 $187.8 $192.8

Based on 2018 data from the National Center for Education Statistics, 28 percent of the Nation’s public 

schools were located in rural areas, with 19 percent of all public school students enrolled at these schools. 

The Rural Education Achievement Program (REAP) supports two programs to help rural school districts 

carry out activities to improve the quality of teaching and learning in their schools. The Small, Rural School 

Achievement program provides formula funds to rural school districts that serve small numbers of students, 

and the Rural and Low-Income School program provides funds to rural school districts that serve 

concentrations of poor students, regardless of the district’s size. Funds appropriated for REAP are divided 

equally between the two programs. The Request would increase support for rural, often geographically 

isolated, districts that face significant challenges in meeting ESEA requirements.

INDIAN EDUCATION

2020 2021

2022

Request

BA in millions

Grants to Local Educational Agencies $105.4 $105.4 $110.4

Special Programs for Indian Children 68.0 68.0 68.0

National Activities 7.4 7.9 7.9

Total 180.7 181.2 186.2

Indian Education programs supplement the efforts of States, LEAs, and Indian Tribes to improve 

educational opportunities for Indian children. The programs link these efforts to broader educational 

reforms underway in States and localities to help ensure that these reforms benefit Indian students, enabling 

them to master the same challenging academic standards as other students by better meeting their 

educational and cultural needs.

Grants to Local Educational Agencies provide formula grants to LEAs and to schools funded or operated 

by the Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Indian Education for activities to improve the educational 

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achievement of Indian students. Funds would support supplemental educational services to a disadvantaged 

population that is heavily affected by poverty and low educational attainment, providing an average 

estimated per-pupil payment of $246 for nearly 450,000 eligible American Indian and Alaska Native 

elementary and secondary students nationwide. 

The Request for Special Programs for Indian Children includes support for competitive awards for projects 

to improve the college- and career-readiness of Native youth, as well as professional development grants 

for training Native American teachers and administrators for employment in schools with high proportions 

of Indian students. 

The Request also supports National Activities, which fund grants to support Native language immersion 

programs; State-Tribal Education Partnership grants to create and build the capacity of Tribal educational

agencies; and research, evaluation, and data collection activities designed to provide critical information on 

the educational status and needs of Indian students and to identify effective practices in the education of 

Indian students. 

NATIVE HAWAIIAN EDUCATION

2020 2021

2022

Request

BA in millions $36.9 $37.4 $37.4

The Native Hawaiian Education program makes competitive awards to support supplemental education 

services to the Native Hawaiian population in such areas as teacher training, family-based education, gifted 

and talented education, early childhood education, special education, higher education, and communitybased education learning centers. 

ALASKA NATIVE EDUCATION

2020 2020

2022

Request

BA in millions $36.0 $36.5 $36.5

This program makes competitive awards to support supplemental educational programs and services 

designed to improve educational outcomes for Alaska Natives, including activities to support the use and 

preservation of Alaska Native languages, professional development for educators, home instruction 

programs for Alaska Native preschool children, family literacy services, student enrichment programs in 

science and mathematics, and dropout prevention programs. 

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STATE ASSESSMENTS

2020 2021

2022

Request

BA in millions

State Assessment Grants $369.1 $369.1 $369.1

Competitive Assessment Grants 8.9 8.9 8.9

Total 378.0 378.0 378.0

The Request would help States continue to administer aligned assessment systems as part of their ongoing 

implementation of the Every Student Succeeds Act. Annual, high-quality, statewide assessments aligned to 

challenging State academic standards are a critical element of the statewide accountability systems that 

each State must establish under the Act, providing parents and educators with information they need to 

understand whether students are meeting State-determined college- and career-ready academic standards. 

State assessments also help identify schools that are meeting these standards and schools where additional 

resources and supports may be needed to improve educational opportunity and academic achievement. The 

Request provides funding for both Grants for State Assessments and the separately authorized Competitive 

Grants for State Assessments program, which supports activities to improve State assessment systems.

EDUCATION INNOVATION AND RESEARCH

2020 2021

2022

Request

BA in millions $190.0 $194.0 $194.0

The Education Innovation and Research (EIR) program supports the creation, development, 

implementation, replication, and scaling up of evidence-based innovations designed to improve student 

achievement and attainment for underserved, high-need students. The request would build on the 

Department’s success in using program funds to build an evidence base that will help ensure that educators, 

schools, and districts have access to innovative strategies and practices that are effective in improving 

educational outcomes for students.

COMPREHENSIVE LITERACY DEVELOPMENT GRANTS

2020 2021

2022

Request

BA in millions $192.0 $192.0 $192.0

This program provides competitive grants to SEAs that then award subgrants to eligible entities to support 

efforts to improve literacy instruction in high-need schools or early childhood education programs. LEAs 

or early childhood education programs that receive subgrants from SEAs under this program must serve a 

high percentage of disadvantaged children, such as children from low-income families, children with 

disabilities, or English learners, and must represent diverse geographical areas. The request would support 

24 continuation awards.

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INNOVATIVE APPROACHES TO LITERACY

2020 2021

2022

Request

BA in millions $27.0 $28.0 $28.0

The Innovative Approaches to Literacy program makes competitive grants to support projects that promote 

literacy through enhanced school library programs; early literacy services, including outreach to parents of 

young children to ensure that families have access to developmentally appropriate materials and are 

encouraged to read aloud to their young children; and the distribution of high-quality books. The request 

would support an estimated 40 continuation awards for grantees selected through the fiscal year 2021 

competition. 

AMERICAN HISTORY AND CIVICS EDUCATION

2020 2021

2022

Request

BA in millions $4.8 $5.3 $5.3

The American History and Civics Education programs are designed to improve the quality of teaching and 

learning in American history, civics, and government. The American History and Civics Academies 

program supports efforts to improve the quality of American history and civics education by providing 

intensive workshops for teachers (Presidential Academies) and students (Congressional Academies) aimed 

at enhancing the teaching and understanding of these twin foundations of effective citizenship. The National 

Activities program also promotes evidence-based instructional methods and professional development 

programs in American history, civics and government, and geography. The Request would support 

continuation awards under these programs. 

ARTS IN EDUCATION

2020 2021

2022

Request

BA in millions $30.0 $30.5 $30.5

This program promotes arts education for students, including disadvantaged students and students who are 

children with disabilities, through professional development for arts educators, development and 

dissemination of accessible instructional materials and arts-based educational programming, and 

community outreach activities that strengthen partnerships among schools and arts organizations. 

JAVITS GIFTED AND TALENTED EDUCATION

2020 2021

2022

Request

BA in millions $13.0 $13.5 $13.5

The Javits Gifted and Talented Education program supports a coordinated program of research, 

demonstration projects, innovative strategies, and other activities to build and enhance the capacity of 

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elementary and secondary schools to identify gifted and talented students and meet their special educational 

needs. Funds may be used for, among other things, establishing and operating gifted and talented education 

programs, which may include innovative methods and strategies for identifying and teaching students 

traditionally underserved in such programs. The Request would focus resources toward the 

Administration’s goal of providing equity in access to educational opportunity for underserved student 

groups, including students of color, English learners, and students with disabilities, for whom data show 

persistent underrepresentation in gifted and talented education programs. 

READY TO LEARN PROGRAMMING (RTL)

2020 2021

2022

Request

BA in millions $29.0 $29.5 $29.5

The RTL program makes awards to public telecommunications entities that support the development and 

distribution of educational video programming for preschool and elementary school children and their 

parents, caregivers, and teachers, as well accompanying support materials and services that can be used to 

promote the effective use of such programming. Funds also are used to develop digital content, such as 

applications and online educational games, that is specifically designed for nationwide distribution over 

public television stations’ digital broadcasting channels and the Internet. 

STATEWIDE FAMILY ENGAGEMENT CENTERS

2020 2021

2022

Request

BA in millions $10.0 $12.5 $12.5

This program provides funding to statewide organizations, or consortia of such organizations, to establish 

statewide centers that promote parent and family engagement in education or provide comprehensive 

training and technical assistance to SEAs, LEAs, schools, and organizations that support partnerships 

between families and schools. The Request would support new and continuation awards that, by educating 

parents and fostering partnerships between families and schools, particularly schools with concentrations 

of disadvantaged students, can help lay the groundwork for sustained school improvement. 

COMPREHENSIVE CENTERS

2020 2021

2022

Request

BA in millions $52.0 $52.0 $52.0

Funds would be used for continuation costs of 19 Regional Centers and one National Center. Regional 

Centers provide intensive capacity-building services to help SEAs and other recipients identify, implement, 

and sustain effective evidence-based practices that improve instruction and student outcomes. The National 

Center provides universal and targeted capacity-building services to address common high-leverage 

problems and common programmatic monitoring and audit findings, as well as information on emerging 

national education issues. In addition, funds would support a center for students at risk of not attaining full 

literacy skills due to a disability. 

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IMPACT AID

2020 2021

2022

Request

BA in millions

Payments for Federally Connected Children: 

 Basic Support Payments $1,340.2 $1,354.2 $1,394.2

 Payments for Children with Disabilities 48.3 48.3 48.3

Facilities Maintenance 4.8 4.8 4.8

Construction 17.4 17.4 17.4

Payments for Federal Property 75.3 76.3 76.3

Total 1,486.1 1,501.1 1,541.1

Note: Amounts may not add due to rounding.

The Impact Aid program provides financial assistance to school districts affected by Federal activities. The 

presence of certain children living on Federal property across the country can place a financial burden on 

the LEAs that educate them because such property is exempt from local property taxes, denying LEAs 

access to a key source of revenue used by most communities to finance education. Impact Aid helps replace 

the lost local revenue that would otherwise be available to LEAs to pay for the education of these children.

The Request would provide significant support for the education of almost 800,000 federally connected 

children in over 1,000 school districts. 

Basic Support Payments support federally connected children through both regular Basic Support Payments 

and Basic Support Payments for Heavily Impacted LEAs.

The Request for Payments for Children with Disabilities would support formula grants to help eligible 

districts meet their obligations under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act to provide a free 

appropriate public education for federally connected children with disabilities.

The Request for Facilities Maintenance would fund essential repair and maintenance of the nine school 

facilities serving large numbers of military dependents that are owned and operated by the Department of 

Education, while also supporting the transfer of these schools to local school districts.

The Request for Construction would be used for competitive grants to the LEAs with the greatest need and 

would provide sufficient assistance to enable those LEAs to make major repairs and renovations.

The Request for Payments for Federal Property would provide formula-based payments to LEAs that 

generally have lost 10 percent or more of their taxable property to the Federal Government. 

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SUPPLEMENTAL EDUCATION GRANTS

2020 2021

2022

Request

BA in millions $16.7 $16.7 $19.7

The Request would include an inflation adjusted increase to maintain support for Supplemental Education 

Grants to the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) and the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI), as 

authorized by the Compact of Free Association Amendments Act of 2003 (P.L. 108-188). Under this 

program, the Department transfers funds and provides recommendations on the uses of those funds to the 

Department of the Interior, which makes grants to the FSM and the RMI for educational services that 

augment the general operations of the educational systems of the two entities. 

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B. SPECIAL EDUCATION AND REHABILITATION SERVICES

OVERVIEW

The Administration is committed to providing Americans with disabilities the opportunities and services 

they need to succeed in school, in the workplace, and in the community. The 2022 President’s Budget

supports a wide range of programs that can improve educational, employment, and independent living 

outcomes for people with disabilities.

The $17.2 billion Request for Special Education programs focuses on improving educational and 

developmental outcomes for children with disabilities. For the Grants to States program, the Administration 

is requesting $15.5 billion, an increase of $2.6 billion over the 2021 enacted level, the largest increase in 

the Federal contribution toward meeting the excess cost of special education in two decades. This is a 

significant first step on the path to fully funding IDEA. Grants would cover 15 percent of the national 

average per pupil expenditure and provide an estimated average of $2,033 per child for about 7.6 million 

children ages 3 through 21. This funding would support States and local educational agencies (LEAs) as 

they work to improve results for children with disabilities. The request also includes $502.6 million for the 

Preschool Grants program, an increase of $105 million over the 2021 enacted level, and $731.9 million for 

the Grants for Infants and Families program, an increase of $250 million over the 2021 enacted level. 

The $397.7 million Request for Special Education National Activities would increase support for technical 

assistance, dissemination, training, and other activities that assist States, LEAs, parents, and others in 

improving results for children with disabilities by $167.7 million from the 2021 enacted level. The request 

would increase funding for the Personnel Preparation program by $159.8 million from the 2021 enacted 

level to support the training of tens of thousands of additional highly qualified personnel to meet the needs 

of children with disabilities nationwide and address systemic personnel shortages. In addition, the request 

includes $90 million in new mandatory authority for the Personnel Preparation program for fiscal year 2022 

as part of the American Families Plan. This investment would support the pipeline for highly qualified 

special educators. The request also includes targeted increases for technical assistance and training for 

providers and families. In addition, the Request includes $23.7 million for Special Olympics Education 

programs, the same as the 2021 enacted level. 

For Rehabilitation Services, the Administration requests a total of $3.9 billion in mandatory and 

discretionary funds to support comprehensive and coordinated vocational rehabilitation services for 

individuals with disabilities through training, demonstration, and technical assistance, as well as other direct 

service programs to help individuals with disabilities to live more independently in their communities. The 

Request includes $3.7 billion in mandatory funds for the Vocational Rehabilitation (VR) State Grants 

program, an increase of $44.1 million over the fiscal year 2021 level consistent with the inflation increase 

specified in the authorizing statute. The request also includes $40.8 million for the Demonstration and 

Training program, an increase of $35 million over the fiscal year 2021 level, and $18.5 million for the 

Helen Keller National Center, an increase of $1.5 million over the fiscal year 2021 level. Funding for the 

remaining programs in the Rehabilitation Services account would be maintained at the 2021 enacted level.

The 2022 Request also includes an increase of $3 million for the American Printing House for the Blind, 

$3 million for the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, and $3 million for Gallaudet University over 

the fiscal year 2021 level to cover increased operational costs. Total funding for these institutions would be 

$265.3 million, an increase of $9.0 million above the fiscal year 2021 level. 

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GRANTS TO STATES

2020 2021

2022

Request

BA in millions $12,764.4 $12,937.5 $15,537.4

The Grants to States program, which is authorized under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act 

(IDEA), makes formula grants that help States pay the additional costs of providing special education and 

related services to children with disabilities aged 3 through 21 years. The increased level proposed for fiscal 

year 2022 would support an estimated average per-child award of $2,033 for roughly 7.6 million children 

with disabilities, setting the Federal contribution to about 15 percent of the national average per pupil 

expenditure. This increase of $2.6 billion is a significant first step on the path to fully funding IDEA. 

Under the IDEA, States are required to provide a free appropriate public education to all children with 

disabilities. Services are provided in accordance with individualized education programs that are developed 

by teams that include not less than the child’s parents, a special educator, a representative of the LEA, a 

regular educator, and the child with a disability as appropriate. In addition, services must be provided, to 

the maximum extent appropriate and in the least restrictive environment, which for most children means 

full participation in classes with children without disabilities. Students with disabilities also must be

included in general State and district-wide assessments, including the assessments required under ESEA, 

and States must appropriately accommodate children with disabilities so they can participate in these 

assessments, or alternate assessments for those children with the most significant cognitive disabilities who 

cannot participate in regular assessments.

PRESCHOOL GRANTS

2020 2021

2022

Request

BA in millions $394.1 $397.6 $502.6

This program provides formula grants to help States make a free appropriate public education available to 

all children with disabilities ages 3 through 5. The Request would provide an estimated $623 per child for 

approximately 806,000 children to supplement funds provided under the Grants to States program and help 

to ensure that young children with disabilities are ready to learn when they enter school. 

GRANTS FOR INFANTS AND FAMILIES

2020 2021

2022

Request

BA in millions $477.0 $481.9 $731.9

This program provides formula grants to help States implement statewide systems of early intervention 

services for infants and toddlers with disabilities and their families so that State and local agencies identify 

and serve children with disabilities early in life when interventions can be most effective in improving 

educational outcomes. The Request would enable States to provide high-quality early intervention services 

to approximately to between 480,000 and 490,000 infants and toddlers with disabilities and their families.

The Request also includes proposals designed to increase access to the program for infants and families 

who have been traditionally underrepresented in the program, eliminate out-of-pocket costs for participating 

families, and promote continuity of services for eligible infants and their families.

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STATE PERSONNEL DEVELOPMENT

2020 2021

2022

Request

BA in millions $38.6 $38.6 $38.6

This program provides competitive grants to help States reform and enhance their systems for personnel 

preparation and professional development in the areas of early intervention, educational, and transition 

services in order to improve outcomes for children with disabilities. The Request would cover the cost of 

both new and continuation awards to State educational agencies to improve the knowledge and skills of 

special education and regular education teachers serving children with disabilities. It would also help recruit 

and retain personnel who are qualified to provide services to children with disabilities. 

TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE AND DISSEMINATION

2020 2021

2022

Request

BA in millions $44.3 $44.3 $49.3

This program funds competitive grants for technical assistance and dissemination of materials based on 

knowledge gained through research and practice. The Request would support continuations costs for 

projects initiated in previous years and approximately $16.5 million in new awards. 

PERSONNEL PREPARATION

2020 2021

2022

Request

BA in millions $89.7 $90.2 $250.0

American Families Plan Mandatory BA in millions — — $90.0

This program helps ensure that there are adequate numbers of personnel with the skills and knowledge 

necessary to help children with disabilities succeed educationally. Program activities focus both on meeting 

the demand for personnel to serve children with disabilities and improving the qualifications of these 

personnel, with particular emphasis on incorporating knowledge gained from research and practice into 

training programs. The Department uses requested funds to support (1) training for leadership personnel 

and personnel who work with children with low-incidence disabilities, (2) at least one activity in the broadly 

defined area of personnel development, and (3) enhanced support for beginning special educators. 

The Administration is also requesting $90 million in new mandatory funding in fiscal year 2022 for the 

Personnel Preparation program. This request is a part of President Biden’s American Families Plan to

address teaching shortages, improve training and supports for teachers, and boost teacher diversity. The 

mandatory request would amplify the impact of the discretionary request by ensuring long-term funding 

for the development of special education and related services providers. The Personnel Preparation 

program did not receive any COVID-19 supplemental funding in fiscal year 2021. 

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PARENT INFORMATION CENTERS

2020 2021

2022

Request

BA in millions $27.4 $27.4 $30.2

These funds support centers that provide parents with the training and information they need to work with 

professionals to meet the early intervention and special education needs of their children with disabilities. 

The Request would support awards for about 94 centers as well as approximately 5 awards to provide 

technical assistance to the centers.

EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY, MEDIA, AND MATERIALS

2020 2021

2022

Request

BA in millions $29.5 $29.5 $29.5

This program makes competitive awards for research, development, and other activities that promote the 

use of technology, including universal design features, in providing special education and related services. 

Funds also support media-related activities, such as providing video description and captioning of films and 

television for use in classrooms for individuals with visual and hearing impairments and increasing the 

availability of books in accessible formats for individuals with visual impairments and other print 

disabilities.

SPECIAL OLYMPICS EDUCATION PROGRAM

2020 2021

2022

Request

BA in millions $20.1 $23.7 $23.7

This program funds the non-profit Special Olympics organization to support activities to promote the 

expansion of Special Olympics, including activities to increase the participation of individuals with 

intellectual disabilities within the United States. Funds also support the design and implementation of 

Special Olympics education programs, including character education and volunteer programs that support 

the purposes of the Special Olympics Sport and Empowerment Act of 2004, that can be integrated into 

classroom instruction and are consistent with academic content standards.

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VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION STATE GRANTS

2020 2021

2022

Request

Mandatory BA in millions $3,397.0 $3,465.5 $3,719.1

Note: Pursuant to the Budget Control Act of 2011 (P.L. 112-25), the amount shown for fiscal year 2020 reflects the 5.9 percent 

reduction that went into effect on October 1, 2019, and the amount shown for fiscal year 2021 reflects the 5.7 percent reduction 

that went into effect on October 1, 2020. The amount requested for fiscal year 2022 does not reflect an anticipated reduction 

pursuant to the Budget Control Act of 2011.

This program provides formula grants to State Vocational Rehabilitation (VR) agencies to help individuals 

with disabilities become gainfully employed. These agencies provide a wide range of services to nearly one 

million individuals with disabilities annually. Services include vocational evaluation, counseling and 

guidance, work adjustment, diagnosis and treatment of physical and mental impairments, education and 

vocational training, job placement, and post-employment assistance. States that are unable to serve all 

eligible individuals with disabilities who apply must give priority to individuals with the most significant 

disabilities.

The Administration’s Request would also assist States and Tribal governments to increase the participation 

of individuals with disabilities in the workforce. Giving workers with disabilities the support and the 

opportunity to acquire the skills they need to pursue in-demand jobs and careers is critical to growing our 

economy. The requested increase ($44.1 million over the fiscal year 2021 mandatory level) is consistent 

with the inflation adjustment specified in the authorizing statute (1.2 percent for 2022). In 2020, the VR 

program helped approximately 116,500 individuals with disabilities―94 percent with significant 

disabilities―achieve employment outcomes. Of the amount requested for VR State grants in 2022, 

$51.8 million would be set aside for the American Indian VR Services program, to support approximately 

96 grants, including 95 continuation tribal grants and a technical assistance training grant. 

CLIENT ASSISTANCE STATE GRANTS

2020 2021

2022

Request

BA in millions $13.0 $13.0 $13.0

This program makes formula grants to States for activities to inform and advise clients of the benefits 

available to them under the Rehabilitation Act, to assist them in their relationships with service providers, 

and to ensure the protection of their rights under the Act. The Request would support advocacy services for 

approximately 30,200 individuals with disabilities.

TRAINING

2020 2021

2022

Request

BA in millions $29.4 $29.4 $29.4

The Training program makes competitive grants to State and other public or nonprofit agencies and 

organizations, including institutions of higher education, to help ensure that personnel with adequate skills 

are available to provide rehabilitation services to persons with disabilities.

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DEMONSTRATION AND TRAINING

2020 2021

2022

Request

BA in millions $5.8 $5.8 $40.8

This program supports competitive grants and contracts to expand and improve services in promoting the 

employment and independence of individuals with disabilities in the community, as well as parent centers 

that provide training and information to individuals with disabilities and their parents, family members, 

guardians, advocates, or authorized representatives. 

The $40.8 million Request for Demonstration and Training Programs provides an increase of $35.0 million 

to support model demonstration projects and technical assistance focused on competitive integrated 

employment, and supplements for the parent centers to provide additional support needed as a result of the 

COVID-19 pandemic. 

SUPPORTED EMPLOYMENT STATE GRANTS

2020 2021

2022

Request

BA in millions $22.5 $22.5 $22.5

Through this formula grant program, State Vocational Rehabilitation agencies receive supplemental funds 

to assist consumers with the most significant disabilities in achieving the employment outcome of supported 

employment.

INDEPENDENT LIVING SERVICES FOR OLDER BLIND INDIVIDUALS

2020 2021

2022

Request

BA in millions $33.3 $33.3 $33.3

The Independent Living Services for Older Blind Individuals program assists individuals aged 55 or older 

whose severe visual impairments make competitive employment difficult to obtain. Funds are provided 

under a formula to State VR agencies to provide services designed to help eligible individuals to adjust to

their blindness by increasing their ability to care for their individual needs. In fiscal year 2020, the program 

served approximately 47,760 individuals with severe visual impairments.

PROTECTION AND ADVOCACY OF INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS

2020 2021

2022

Request

BA in millions $17.7 $18.2 $18.2

The Protection and Advocacy of Individual Rights (PAIR) formula grant program funds systems in each 

State to protect and advocate for the legal and human rights of individuals with disabilities, helping them 

to pursue legal and administrative remedies to secure their rights under Federal law. The PAIR systems also 

provide information on, and referrals to, programs and services for individuals with disabilities. The 

Request would support advocacy services to approximately 39,000 individuals with disabilities.

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HELEN KELLER NATIONAL CENTER FOR DEAF-BLIND YOUTHS AND ADULTS

2020 2021

2022

Request

BA in millions $16.0 $17.0 $18.5

This program serves individuals who are deaf-blind, their families, and service providers through a national 

headquarters center with a residential training and rehabilitation facility and a network of 10 regional offices 

that provide referral, counseling, training, and technical assistance services. The funds requested would 

serve an estimated 2,200 consumers, 700 families, and 1,600 agencies and organizations through its 

regional offices, and provide direct services for approximately 85 consumers at the Center’s residential 

training and rehabilitation program. 

SPECIAL INSTITUTIONS FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES

2020 2021

2022

Request

BA in millions

American Printing House for the Blind $32.4 $34.4 $37.4

National Technical Institute for the Deaf 79.5 81.5 84.5

Gallaudet University 137.4 140.4 143.4

Total 249.3 256.3 265.3

For fiscal year 2022, the Administration requests an increase of $3 million for the American Printing House 

for the Blind, $3 million for the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, and $3 million for Gallaudet 

University over the fiscal year 2021 level to cover increased operational costs. Total funding for these 

institutions would be $265.3 million for Special Institutions, an increase of $9.0 million above the fiscal 

year 2021 level. 

AMERICAN PRINTING HOUSE FOR THE BLIND

The American Printing House for the Blind (APH) manufactures and distributes specially adapted 

educational materials for students who are visually impaired, offers advisory services for consumers and 

educational agencies, and conducts applied research related to the development of new products. 

NATIONAL TECHNICAL INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF

The National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID) provides postsecondary technical education and 

training for students who are deaf or hard of hearing, as well as graduate education and interpreter training 

programs. NTID also conducts research and provides training related to the education and employment of 

individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing. The Department maintains a contract with the Rochester 

Institute of Technology in Rochester, New York, for the operation of NTID. The Request provides support 

for operations, including funds that may be used for the Federal Endowment Grant program. 

GALLAUDET UNIVERSITY

Gallaudet University (University) offers bilingual (i.e., American Sign Language and English) 

undergraduate, graduate, and continuing education programs for individuals who are deaf or hard of 

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hearing, and for hearing students wishing to pursue careers in fields related to deafness. The University also 

operates the Laurent Clerc National Deaf Education Center (Clerc Center), which includes two accredited 

demonstration schools serving deaf and hard of hearing elementary and secondary students: the Kendall 

Demonstration Elementary School and the Model Secondary School for the Deaf. Through its National 

Mission programs, the Clerc Center is responsible for conducting research related to deaf education and for 

the provision of training and technical assistance to professionals and families around the country. The 

Request provides support for operations of the University and the Clerc Center, including funds that may 

be used for the Federal Endowment Grant program.

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C. CAREER, TECHNICAL AND ADULT EDUCATION

OVERVIEW

A skilled workforce is critical for both strong communities and a strong economy, and the programs in this 

account support the President’s goal to invest in workforce development and build the capacity of the 

existing workforce development system through the American Jobs Plan. 

The 2022 President’s Budget would provide a discretionary increase for CTE State grants and as well as $1 

billion annually over the next 10 years in mandatory funding under the American Jobs Plan (AJP) to expand 

career pathways for middle and high school students. These funds would support the development and 

implementation of high-quality career pathway programs in middle and high schools, with a priority on

programs that connect underrepresented students to STEM and in-demand sectors and help increase the 

capacity of community colleges to offer high-quality workforce training programs. 

The Request also would significantly expand CTE National Programs, providing an additional $100 million 

for competitive awards for middle and high school CTE innovation projects aimed at advancing equity, 

building the evidence base for what works in CTE, especially for underserved students, and scaling those 

effective practices, as well as another $8 million to provide technical assistance to grantees and fund 

evaluation activities for these programs. 

The Request recognizes the importance of Adult Education programs in helping to increase the number of 

adults who have the basic literacy and numeracy skills required to participate successfully in workforce 

education and training programs, including meeting the basic entrance requirements of apprenticeship 

programs. The Request would provide $675 million for Adult Education State Grants, the same level as 

the 2021 enacted level. The AJP would provide an additional $100 million annually over the next 10 years 

to help connect job-seeking adults to employment opportunities by focusing on foundational skills and 

embedding career services throughout the adult education lifecycle. 

Finally, Adult Education National Leadership Activities would be funded at $38.7 million. The $25 million 

increase over the 2021 enacted level would fund a scaling up of college bridge programs for low-skilled 

adults without a high school degree or equivalency. 

CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION

2020 2021

2022

Request

BA in millions

State Grants $1,282.6 $1,334.8 $1,354.9

National Programs 7.4 7.4 115.4

Total 1,290.0 1,342.2 1,470.3

American Jobs Plan Mandatory BA in millions — — 1,000.0

The Request provides $1.35 billion for the Career and Technical Education (CTE) State Grants program, 

an increase of $20 million, over the 2021 enacted level. The Request would support the President’s goal to 

invest in workforce development and build the capacity of the existing workforce development system. 

Funding would help State and local workforce training programs deliver on the promise of the 

Strengthening Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century Act by better integrating academic and 

career and technical education; promoting student attainment of challenging academic standards along with 

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technical skills; providing strong linkages between secondary and postsecondary education; helping prepare 

special populations for high-skill, high-wage, or in-demand industry sectors or occupations that will allow 

graduates to earn a living wage; and provide work-based learning opportunities and opportunities to gain 

postsecondary credit while still attending high school. The President’s Budget also requests $1 billion in 

new mandatory funding for CTE in fiscal year 2022 for Expanded Career Pathways for Middle and High 

School Students to expand access to high quality CTE for underserved communities under President 

Biden’s American Jobs Plan. The $115.4 million Request for CTE National Programs provides an increase 

of $108 million, of which $100 million would fund competitive awards for middle and high school CTE 

innovation projects aimed at advancing equity, building the evidence base for what works in CTE, 

especially for underserved students, and scaling those effective practices. The remaining $8 million would 

support technical assistance to grantees and evaluation activities for these grants.

ADULT EDUCATION

BA in millions 2020 2021

2022

Request

Adult Education State Grants $657.0 $675.0 $675.0

National Leadership Activities 13.7 13.7 38.7

Total 670.7 688.7 713.7

American Jobs Plan Mandatory BA in millions — — 100.0

The Adult Education and Family Literacy Act is authorized through the Workforce Innovation and 

Opportunity Act, which promotes alignment of the Adult Education programs with Federal job training 

programs and the postsecondary education system. 

The Request provides $675.0 million for Adult Education State Grants, the same as the 2021 enacted level. 

The program assists adults without a high school diploma or the equivalent to become literate and obtain 

the skills necessary for postsecondary education, employment, and economic self-sufficiency. The 

President’s Budget also requests $100 million in new mandatory funding for Adult Education in fiscal year 

2022 under President Biden’s American Jobs Plan to help connect low-skilled adults with quality jobs.

The $38.7 million Request for National Leadership Activities includes a $25 million increase to scale up 

college bridge programs for low-skilled adults without a high school degree or equivalency, and continues 

support for State efforts to increase the literacy and workforce skills of adults.

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D. STUDENT FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE

OVERVIEW

The Federal student aid programs provide grant, loan, and work-study assistance to help students afford a 

postsecondary education and realize the lifelong benefits of a higher education such as financial stability. 

The Request for student financial assistance includes both discretionary and mandatory funding that would 

make available $135 billion in new Federal student aid to help over 10 million students and their families 

pay for college.

The Administration’s fiscal year 2022 budget provides discretionary funding to increase the maximum Pell 

Grant by $400—the largest one-time increase since 2009. This increase, together with the $1,475 Pell 

Grant increase in the American Families Plan, represents a significant first step to deliver on the President’s 

goal to double the grant. The Budget also increases funding to expand institutional and student supports at 

community colleges, HBCUs, TCCUs, and MSIs. The Administration also looks forward to working with 

the Congress on changes to the Higher Education Act that ease the burden of student debt, including through 

improvements to the Income Driven Repayment (IDR) and Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) 

programs. Specific policy proposals include: 

Doubling Pell Grants 

Pell Grants have been the foundation of low- and moderate-income students’ financial aid for decades. 

However the value has diminished as college costs continue to rise. The Administration’s fiscal year 2022 

budget would set a maximum award of $8,370 for award year 2022-2023, an increase of $1,875 over the 

previous year. This historic increase is a significant down payment on the President’s commitment to 

doubling the grant.

Expand Federal Student Aid Eligibility to DREAMers

To qualify for Title IV federal financial aid under current statute, students must either be a citizen or a 

permanent resident of the United States, among other requirements. The Budget proposes to expand 

eligibility for Pell Grants and Campus-Based Aid to DACA recipients. The Administration would also 

like to work with Congress to ensure these students are eligible for federal student loans.

TEACH Grants

As part of the American Families Plan, the Budget proposes to double the grant amount from $4,000 to 

$8,000 per year for juniors, seniors, and graduate students. The Budget would also expand the TEACH 

Grant program to future early childhood educators, remove the GPA requirement, and pursue reforms to 

reduce the likelihood and harm of grant-to-loan conversions. This expanded support would help future 

teachers cover the costs of comprehensive preparation programs. 

Free Community College 

Also through the American Families Plan, the Budget includes two new higher education programs already 

put forward in the American Families Plan that reduce tuition and fees for eligible students. While these 

programs operate differently from the individual-level benefits provided by Title IV federal financial aid, 

these are important investments in the Administration’s efforts to make college affordable and accessible 

to all students. The Budget proposes a partnership between the Federal government and States, tribes, and 

territories to ensure that first-time students and workers wanting to reskill can enroll in a community college 

to earn a degree or credential for free. If all States, territories, and Tribes participate, about 5.5 million 

students would pay $0 in tuition and fees.

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Advancing Affordability for Students 

The other American Families Plan proposal to reduce tuition and fees would provide grants to eligible fouryear Historically Black College and Universities, Tribal Colleges and Universities, and minority-serving 

institutions such as Hispanic-serving institutions and Asian American and Native American Pacific 

Islander-serving institutions to tackle longstanding inequities in postsecondary education and make the U.S. 

more competitive on the global stage. The Budget proposes funding for these grants that will provide two 

years of subsidized tuition for eligible students from families earning less than $125,000. 

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STUDENT AID SUMMARY TABLES (BUDGET AUTHORITY) 

Note: Amounts may not add due to rounding.

1 Amounts appropriated for Pell Grants for 2020, 2021, and 2022 include mandatory funding provided in the Higher Education 

Act, as amended, to fund both the base maximum award and add-on award.

2 For budget and financial management purposes, this program is operated as a credit program under the Federal Credit Reform 

Act of 1990. Budget authority reflects the estimated net present value of future Federal non-administrative costs for awards made

in a given fiscal year. The 2020 amount includes a net downward reestimate of $25.4 million. The 2021 amount includes a net 

upward re-estimate of $75.1 million due to lower than anticipated volume. The amount for 2022 reflects new loan subsidy.

3 Federal Family Education Loan (FFEL) budget authority does not include the Liquidating account. The FFEL reestimates include 

the Ensuring Continued Access to Student Loans Act (ECASLA) reestimates. The 2020 amount includes a net upward reestimate 

of $6.3 billion and upward modification of $3.4 billion. The 2021 amount includes a net upward reestimate of $3.2 billion and an 

upward modification of $2.8 billion. The reestimate for 2021 reflects the impact of changes on an outstanding FFEL plus ECASLA 

portfolio of $209 billion, accounting for 1.5 percent of this total outstanding portfolio.

4 The 2020 amount includes a net upward reestimate of $63.3 billion, due primarily to updated IDR income assumptions using 

newly available IDR application data. The Direct Loans 2020 and 2021 BA amounts also reflect upward modifications related to 

extension of COVID-19 emergency relief measures on Federal student loans through September 30, 2021. The 2021 reestimate 

reflects the impact of changes on an outstanding Direct Loan portfolio of $1,225 billion. The Direct Loan net reestimate in 2021 

accounts for approximately 4.3 percent of the total DL outstanding portfolio at the end of FY 2020. 

($ in millions) 2020 2021 2022

Request

Pell Grants

Discretionary funding $22,475.4 $22,475.4 $25,475.4

Mandatory funding1 6,976.4 6,554.0 15,197.0

Total, Pell Grants 29,451.8 29,029.4 40,672.4

Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants 865.0 880.0 880.0

Federal Work-Study 1,180.0 1,190.0 1,190.0

TEACH Grants2 33.0 144.5 82.1

Iraq and Afghanistan Service Grants 0.5 0.6 0.8

Federal Family Education Loans3 9,734.2 5,996.4 0

Federal Direct Loans4 109,649.9 92,408.0 8,603.8

Total, Student Aid 143,938.0 123,094.9 42,825.3

Free Community College 0 0 14,312

Advancing Affordability for Students 0 0 4,641

Total, Free and Subsidized Tuition 0 0 18,953

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AID AVAILABLE TO STUDENTS

(in thousands) 2020 2021 2022

Request

Pell Grants $27,133.5 $28,062.7 $40,910.4 

Supplemental 

Educational 

Opportunity Grants

1,169.4 1,189.6 1,189.6 

Work-Study 1,214.0 1,224.3 1,224.3 

Iraq and Afghanistan 

Service Grants

0.5 0.6 0.8 

New Student Loans1

Federal Direct Loans 88,446.6 90,483.8 91,260.4 

TEACH Grants 78.4 79.4 172.2 

Total, Aid Available 

to Students2

118,042.4 121,040.4 134,757.7 

Unduplicated Count of 

Postsecondary Students 

Aided by Department 

Programs 

9,534 9,681 10,090

Note: Numbers may not add due to rounding. Does not include Free Community College or Advancing Affordability for 

Students, as the Department would not operate these programs as a student-level benefit.

1 Consolidation Loans for existing borrowers will total $30.4 billion in 2020; $36.7 billion in 2021; and $39.4 billion in 2022. 

2 Shows total aid generated by Department programs.

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NUMBER OF STUDENT AID AWARDS

(in thousands) 2020 2021 2022

Request

Pell Grants 6,303.0 6,456.0 7,312.0 

Supplemental 

Educational 

Opportunity Grants

1,663.4 1,692.2 1,692.2 

Work-Study 645.4 650.9 650.9 

Iraq and Afghanistan 

Service Grants

0.1 0.1 0.1 

New Student Loans1

Federal Direct Loans 13,654.0 13,797.4 13,761.6 

TEACH Grants 25.2 25.4 39.2 

Total, Number of 

Student Aid Awards

22,291.0 22,622.1 23,455.9

Note: Numbers may not add due to rounding. Does not include Free Community College or Advancing Affordability for 

Students, as the Department would not operate these programs as a student-level benefit.

1 Excludes Consolidation Loans. Number of Consolidation Loans will total 496,000 in 2020; 586,000 in 2021; and 636,000 in

2022. 

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FEDERAL PELL GRANT PROGRAM

BA in millions 2020 2021 2022

Request

Discretionary budget authority $22,475.4 $22,475.4 $25,475.4

Mandatory budget authority 5,571.4 5,412.0 14,190.0

Definite mandatory funding 1,405.0 1,142.0 1,007.0

Total 29,451.8 29,029.4 40,672.4

Maximum grant (in whole dollars)

Discretionary portion $5,285 $5,435 $5,835

Mandatory add-on 1,060 1,060 2,535

Total 6,345 6,495 8,370

Program costs (dollars in millions) $27,165.0 $28,095.0 $40,947.0

Aid available (dollars in millions) $27,133.5 $28,062.7 $40,910.4

Average grant (in whole dollars) $4,305 $4,347 $5,595

Recipients (in thousands) 6,303 6,456 7,312

The Federal Pell Grant program helps ensure financial access to postsecondary education by providing 

grant aid to low- and moderate-income undergraduate students. The program is the largest need-based 

postsecondary student grant program, with individual awards based on the financial circumstances of 

students and their families. The fiscal year 2022 Request would make college more affordable for an 

estimated 7.3 million students by providing $25.5 billion for Pell Grants and increasing the maximum award 

to $8,370, a first step towards doubling the Pell Grant maximum award. 

In addition, the Request proposes to expand Pell Grant eligibility to students who are Deferred Action for 

Childhood Arrivals recipients, commonly known as DREAMers. 

Campus-Based Aid Programs 

Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants (FSEOG) and Federal Work-Study are called the 

“campus-based aid” programs because they make grants directly to participating institutions, which have 

considerable flexibility to package awards based on the needs of their students.

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FEDERAL SUPPLEMENTAL EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY GRANTS 

2020 2021 2022

Request

BA in millions $865.0 $880.0 $880.0

Aid available (dollars in millions) $1,169.4 $1,189.6 $1,189.6

Average award (in whole dollars) $703 $703 $703

Recipients (in thousands) 1,663 1,692 1,692

The FSEOG program provides need-based grant aid to eligible undergraduate students to help reduce 

financial barriers to postsecondary education. Federal funding allocations are awarded to qualifying 

postsecondary institutions under a statutory formula. The Request funds FSEOG at $880 million, the same 

as the FY 2021 level.

FEDERAL WORK-STUDY 

2020 2021 2022

Request

BA in millions $1,180.0 $1,190.0 $1,190.0

Aid available (dollars in millions) $1,214.0 $1,224.3 $1,224.3

Average award (in whole dollars) $1,881 $1,881 $1,881

Recipients (in thousands) 645 651 651

The Federal Work-Study program provides grants to participating institutions to pay up to 75 percent of the 

wages of eligible undergraduate and graduate students working part-time to help pay their college costs. 

The school or another eligible employer provides the balance of the student’s wages. The Request funds 

Federal Work-Study at $1,190 million, the same as the FY 2021 level. 

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IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN SERVICE GRANTS 

2020 2021 2022

Request

BA in thousands $513 $551 $783

Aid available (dollars in thousands) $534 $608 $783

Average award (in whole dollars)

1 $5,528 $5,664 $7,299

Recipients (2) (2) (2)

1 Average award amounts reflect impact of sequestration. 

2 Number of recipients estimated to be fewer than 500.

The Iraq and Afghanistan Service Grant (IASG) program provides non-need-based grants to students whose 

parent or guardian was a member of the Armed Forces who died in Iraq or Afghanistan as a result of

performing military service after September 11, 2001. Of those dependents of deceased service men and 

women, students who fall below the financial criteria for the Pell Grant program are eligible for a maximum 

Pell Grant and those who do not are eligible to receive a Service Grant. Additionally, students must be 24 

years old or younger; or, if older than 24, must have been enrolled in an institution of higher education at 

the time of the parent or guardian’s death. Service Grants are equal to the maximum Pell Grant for a given 

award year, which is $6,495 for the 2021–2022 award year.

TEACH GRANTS 

2020 2021 2022

Request

BA in millions $19.41 $144.51 $82.11

Aid available to students (in millions) $78.4 $79.4 $172.2

Maximum grant (in whole dollars) $4,000 $4,000 $8,000

Average grant (in whole dollars) $3,114 $3,121 $4,397

Recipients (in thousands) 25.2 25.4 39.2

1 The 2020 amount includes a net downward reestimate of $25.4 million. The 2021 amount includes a net upward reestimate of 

$75.1 million. The amount for 2022 reflects new loan subsidy.

The TEACH Grant program awards annual grants of up to $4,000 to eligible undergraduate and graduate 

students who agree to serve, within 8 years of graduation, as full-time teachers in mathematics, science, 

foreign language, bilingual education, special education, or reading at a high-need school for not less than 

4 years. For students who fail to fulfill this service requirement, grants are converted to Direct Unsubsidized 

Stafford Loans with interest accrued from the date the grants were awarded. The Administration projects 

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that 55 percent of students receiving TEACH Grants will have their grants converted to loans. First 

introduced as part of the American Families Plan, the Administration seeks a number of reforms to reduce 

barriers and make a teaching career possible for a greater number of students. The Budget proposes to 

double the grant amount from $4,000 to $8,000 per year for juniors, seniors, and graduate students. The 

Budget would also expand the TEACH Grant program to cover early childhood educators, and remove the 

GPA requirement to provide more equitable access to the program. The Administration also seeks reforms 

that would reduce the likelihood and harm of grant-to-loan conversions. For budget and financial 

management purposes, the TEACH program is operated as a loan program with 100 percent forgiveness of 

outstanding principal and interest upon completion of a student’s service requirement. Consistent with the 

requirements of the Credit Reform Act of 1990, budget authority for this program reflects the estimated net 

present value of all future non-administrative Federal costs associated with awards made in a given fiscal 

year.

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FEDERAL FAMILY EDUCATION LOANS AND DIRECT LOANS

BA in millions 2020 2021 2022

Request

Federal Family Education Loans1

Net modification of existing loans $6,285.62 $3,192.12 - 

Net reestimate of existing loans $3,446.54 $3,780.64 - 

Total, FFEL program BA $9,732.1 $6,972.7 - 

Federal Direct Loans

New Loan Subsidies (BA) $6,838.23 $3,225.23 $8,603.83

Net modification of existing loans $39,575.72 $36,346.82 - 

Net reestimate of existing loans $63,205.94 $52,835.94 - 

Total, new budget authority $109,619.9 $92,408.0 $8,603.8 

Total, student loans (BA) $119,352.0 $99,380.7 $8,603.8 

1 FFEL budget authority does not include the liquidating account.

2 Under Credit Reform, costs or savings related to the impact of enacted policy changes on existing loans are reflected in the current 

year. The fiscal year 2020 and 2021 FFEL and Direct Loan modifications reflect costs related to the extension of COVID-19 

emergency relief measures on federal student loans through Sept. 30, 2021. The Direct Loan modification in fiscal year 2021 also 

reflects costs associated with permitting borrowers who work for employers that engage in religious instruction, worship services, 

or proselytizing to qualify for Public Service Loan Forgiveness so long as they meet the applicable standards. 

3 Total includes amount for Consolidation Loans.

4 Under Credit Reform, the subsidy amounts are reestimated annually in both Direct Loans and FFEL to account for changes in 

long-term projections. Reestimates and modifications reflect the impact of changes on outstanding portfolios of $161 billion for

FFEL, $48 billion for ECASLA, and $1,225 billion for Direct Loans. Total reestimates and modifications shown in 2021 account 

for approximately 7 percent of the total outstanding portfolio at the end of fiscal year 2020.

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NEW LOAN VOLUME

Number of New Loans. 

1Consolidation Loans for existing borrowers will total $30.4 billion and 496,000 loans in 2020, $36.7 billion and 586,000 loans in 

2021, and $39.5 billion and 636,000 loans in 2022. 

The Department of Education operates two major student loan programs—the Federal Family Education 

Loan (FFEL) program and the William D. Ford Federal Direct Loan (Direct Loan) program—but since 

July 1, 2010, the Department has made new loans only through the Direct Loan program. The legacy FFEL 

program made loans to students and their families through private lenders, with loans guaranteed by the 

Federal Government and administered by State and private nonprofit guaranty agencies. 

Under the Direct Loan program, the Federal Government provides the loan capital and schools disburse 

loan funds to students. The Department carries out its loan origination and servicing functions under Direct 

Loans through private contractors. The Direct Loan program features four types of loans with fixed interest 

rates that are set annually (note that these descriptions are for current law).

• Stafford Loans are low-interest loans with annual and aggregate limits available to undergraduate 

students based on financial need. The Federal Government pays the interest while the student is in 

school and during certain grace and deferment periods. The current interest rate for undergraduate 

loans made in award year 2020–2021 is 2.75 percent.

(in millions)

Direct Loans:

2020 2021 2022

Request

Stafford loans $17,841.4 $17,986.2 $17,903.0

Unsubsidized Stafford loans 48,433.8 49,625.0 50,102.5

Parent PLUS loans 10,528.9 10,651.3 10,782.9

Grad PLUS loans 11,642.5 12,221.3 12,472.0

Total1 88,446.6 90,483.8 91,260.4

(in thousands)

Direct Loans:

2020 2021 2022

Request

Stafford loans 5,105 5,137 5,098

Unsubsidized Stafford loans 7,209 7,317 7,310

Parent PLUS loans 725 716 713

Grad PLUS loans 614 627 641

Total1 13,654 13,797 13,762

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• Unsubsidized Stafford Loans are low-interest loans with annual and aggregate limits available to 

undergraduate and graduate students, regardless of financial need. The Federal Government does 

not pay interest for the student during in-school, grace, and deferment periods. The interest rate is

2.75 percent for undergraduate borrowers and 4.30 percent for graduate and professional borrowers 

in award year 2020-2021. 

• PLUS Loans are available to parents of dependent undergraduate students and to graduate and 

professional students. There is no annual or aggregate limit on the amount that can be borrowed 

other than the cost of attendance minus other student financial aid. The interest rate is 5.30 percent 

in award year 2020–2021, and the Federal Government does not pay interest during in-school, 

grace, and deferment periods. 

• Consolidation Loans allow borrowers with multiple student loans who meet certain criteria to 

combine their loans and extend their repayment schedules. The rate for both FFEL and Direct 

Consolidation Loans is based on the weighted average of loans consolidated rounded up to the 

nearest one-eighth of 1 percent. The resulting rate for the consolidated loan is then fixed for the life 

of the loan.

The Administration looks forward to working with Congress on changes to the Higher Education Act 

that ease the burden of student debt, including through improvements to the Income Driven Repayment 

(IDR) and Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) programs. 

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E. HIGHER EDUCATION PROGRAMS

OVERVIEW

The Request includes $3.3 billion in discretionary funds for Higher Education programs aimed at improving 

student achievement and increasing access to a high-quality education for all students.

To foster more and better opportunities in higher education for communities that are often underserved, the 

Request provides $1.9 billion in discretionary and mandatory funding for programs that serve high 

proportions of students of color. This includes a discretionary request of $886.8 million for Aid for 

Institutional Development (Title III), an increase of $247 million or 38.6 percent over the 2021 

appropriation: and $265.6 million for Aid for Hispanic-Serving (Title V), an increase of $103 million, or 

63 percent, over the 2021 appropriation. In addition to the discretionary Request, the Administration is 

proposing to triple mandatory funding to minority-serving institutions authorized under the Fostering 

Undergraduate Talent by Unlocking Resources (FUTURE) Act (Section 371 of the HEA). Currently, $255 

million is available in mandatory funding in fiscal year 2022. President Biden’s American Families Plan 

(AFP) would increase that funding level for HBCUs, TCCUs, and other MSIs to $755 million, an increase 

of $500 million in fiscal year 2022 and a total investment of $5 billion over ten years. The Request for Title 

III and Title V demonstrates the Administration’s commitment to assisting institutions that enroll a large 

proportion of minority and disadvantaged students by providing funds to improve institutions’ academic 

programs and administrative and fundraising capabilities.

The Request would provide $1.3 billion in fiscal year 2022 for the Federal TRIO Programs, an increase of 

$200.8 million or 18.3 percent over the fiscal year 2021 appropriation, to provide services to encourage 

underserved individuals to enter and complete college and postgraduate education. Additionally, the 

Request includes $408 million, an increase of $40 million over the fiscal year 2021 appropriation, to assist 

middle and high school students in preparing for college through Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness 

for Undergraduate Programs (GEAR UP).

The request provides $78.2 million for the International Education and Foreign Language Studies programs 

to help meet the Nation's security and economic needs through the development of expertise in foreign 

languages and area and international studies. Finally, the budget would provide $23.5 million for meritand need-based scholarships and fellowships to postsecondary students under the Graduate Assistance in 

Areas of National Need (GAANN) program. 

For fiscal year 2022, the Administration requests $95 million for the Child Care Access Means Parents in 

School (CCAMPIS) program, an increase of $40 million from the fiscal year 2021 appropriation. The 

CCAMPIS program helps to ensure that low-income student parents enroll in, persist in, and complete 

postsecondary education by helping to meet their needs for affordable and convenient child care. The 

request reflects the Administration’s strong commitment to closing equity gaps that limit access to and 

success in postsecondary education, including the extra challenges faced by underserved college student 

parents in finding high-quality, low-cost child care.

The Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE) would receive $76 million, up 

$35 million over the 2021 appropriation, to support a new grant program focused on the growing and 

scaling of integrated, evidence-based approaches designed to improve student access to, success in, and 

completion of postsecondary education, as well as connections to career opportunities. 

The Request would make two significant new investments in teacher recruitment and preparation, including 

$132.1 million, for the Teacher Quality Partnership (TQP) program, an increase of $80 million over the 

2021 appropriation, to help support a variety of effective pathways into teaching and support our Nation’s 

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teaching force in improving student outcomes; and $20 million for a new Hawkins Centers of Excellence 

program designed to increase the quality and number of new minority teachers prepared at a subset of highpriority institutions of higher education. The program would also add to the research base on effective, 

comprehensive teacher preparation program models. The American Family Plan would add $40 million in 

annual mandatory funding for this program over the next 10 years. 

To help fund evidence building to improve postsecondary education, the Request also proposes through 

appropriations language a new HEA pooled evaluation authority to improve data collection and conduct 

rigorous research and evaluations of the Department’s postsecondary programs. The pooled evaluation 

authority is modeled after the successful authority incorporated into the Elementary and Secondary Act by 

the Every Student Succeeds Act of 2015. The authority would permit the Department to reserve up to

0.5 percent of funding appropriated for each HEA program, with the exception of the Pell Grant program 

and the Student Aid Administration account. 

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AID FOR INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT

BA in millions

2020 2021

2022

Request

Strengthening Institutions Program (SIP) $107.9 $109.0 $209.0

Strengthening Tribally Controlled Colleges 

and Universities (TCCUs) 36.6 38.1 53.1

Strengthening Tribally Controlled Colleges 

and Universities (mandatory TCCUs) 28.2

1

28.2

1

89.0

Strengthening Alaska Native and Native 

Hawaiian-serving Institutions (ANNHs) 18.3 19.0 25.0

Strengthening Alaska Native and Native 

Hawaiian-serving Institutions 

(mandatory ANNHs) 14.1114.1144.0

Strengthening Historically Black Colleges 

and Universities (HBCUs) 324.8 337.6 402.6

Strengthening Historically Black Colleges 

and Universities (mandatory HBCUs) 80.01 80.01 252.0

Strengthening Historically Black Graduate 

Institutions (HBGIs) 84.0 87.3 102.3

Strengthening HBCU Master’s Program 10.0 11.0 21.0

Strengthening Predominantly Black 

Institutions (PBIs) 13.2 14.2 23.2

Strengthening Predominantly Black 

Institutions (mandatory PBIs) 14.1

1

14.1

1

44.0

Strengthening Asian American- and Native 

American Pacific Islander-serving 

Institutions (AANAPISIs) 4.4 5.1 20.1

Strengthening Asian American- and Native 

American Pacific Islander-serving 

Institutions (mandatory AANAPISIs) 4.71 4.71 15.0

Strengthening Native American-serving 

nontribal institutions (NASNTIs) 4.4 5.1 12.1

Strengthening Native American-serving 

nontribal institutions (mandatory 

NASNTIs) 4.71 4.71 15.0

Minority Science and Engineering 

Improvement (MSEIP) 12.6 13.4 18.4

Total 762.1 786.0 1,345.8

Discretionary 616.3 639.8 886.8

Mandatory 145.9 146.2 459.0

1 Mandatory appropriations are provided under Section 371 of the HEA, as amended by P.L. 111-152. These amounts include 

sequester reductions of 5.9 percent in 2020 and 5.7 percent in 2021 that went into effect October 1, 2019, and October 1, 2020, 

respectively, pursuant to the Budget Control Act of 2011 (P.L. 112-25). The amount requested for fiscal year 2022 does not reflect 

an anticipated reduction pursuant to the Budget Control Act of 2011.

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The Request for Aid for Institutional Development (Title III) continues to support institutions, including 

community colleges, that serve large percentages of students of color and low-income students. Title III 

funding, which is awarded both competitively and by a formula that directs aid to specified institutions, 

helps provide equal educational opportunity and strong academic programs for these students and enhances 

the financial stability of the institutions that serve them. Funds may be used to plan, develop, and implement 

activities that support student services, interventions that promote degree completion, and faculty 

development; administrative management; development and improvement of academic programs; joint use 

of libraries and laboratories; construction, maintenance, and renovation of instructional facilities; and 

endowment funds.

The Strengthening Institutions Program supports institutions, especially community colleges, that provide 

educational opportunities to low-income and students of color. Fiscal year 2022 funding would support a 

competition for new awards and support continuation awards to more than 220 grantees. 

Strengthening ANNH program supports institutions with undergraduate enrollments that are at least 20 

percent Alaska Native and at least 10 percent Native Hawaiian students, respectively. The discretionary 

request would support continuation awards and enable the Department to conduct a competition for new 

awards for these institutions, which typically are located in remote areas not served by other institutions. 

Strengthening TCCUs supports 35 Tribal Colleges and Universities located primarily in remote areas not 

served by other postsecondary education institutions. These institutions offer a broad range of degree and 

vocational certificate programs to students for whom these educational opportunities would otherwise be 

geographically and culturally inaccessible. 

Strengthening HBCUs supports any accredited, legally authorized HBCU that was established prior to 1964 

and which retains a principal mission of educating African Americans. Fiscal year 2022 funding would 

support 97 HBCUs. 

Strengthening HBGIs supports 24 postgraduate institutions with schools of law, medical schools, or other 

graduate programs. 

Strengthening Predominantly Black Institutions (PBIs) makes awards to primarily urban and rural 2-year 

colleges that have an enrollment of undergraduate students that is at least 40 percent African American and 

that serve at least 50 percent low-income or first-generation college students.

Strengthening HBCU Master’s Program supports 18 HBCUs, specified in Section 723 of the HEA, 

determined to be making a substantial contribution to graduate education opportunities for Black Americans 

at the master’s level in mathematics, engineering, the physical or natural sciences, computer science, 

information technology, nursing, allied health, or other scientific disciplines. 

Strengthening PBIs makes awards to primarily urban and rural 2-year colleges that have an enrollment of 

undergraduate students that is at least 40 percent African American and that serve at least 50 percent lowincome or first-generation college students. 

Strengthening AANAPISIs supports institutions with undergraduate enrollments that are at least 10 percent 

Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander.

Strengthening NASNTIs supports institutions that are not designated as TCCUs yet enroll at least 10 percent 

Native American students and serve at least 50 percent low-income students.

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The Minority Science and Engineering Improvement program would fund approximately 45 new grants 

and 33 continuation grants that support improvement in science and engineering education at predominantly 

minority institutions and increase the participation of underrepresented ethnic minorities, particularly 

minority women, in scientific and technological careers.

In addition to these discretionary requested levels, the Request includes mandatory funding from President 

Biden’s American Families Plan (AFP). The AFP includes nearly tripling mandatory funding authorized 

under the Fostering Undergraduate Talent by Unlocking Resources (FUTURE) Act (Section 371 of the 

HEA) to HBCUs, TCCUs, and MSIs. Currently, $255 million is available in mandatory funding in fiscal 

year 2022 for the Title III and Title V programs authorized by Section 371 of the HEA--$155 million for 

the Title III programs and $100 million for Title V programs. The AFP would increase that funding level 

for HBCUs, TCCUs, and other MSIs to $755 million, an increase of $500 million in fiscal year 2022 and a 

total investment of $5 billion over ten years.

AID FOR HISPANIC-SERVING INSTITUTIONS

BA in millions

2020 2021

2022

Request

Developing Hispanic-Serving Institutions 

(HSIs) (discretionary) $143.1 $148.7 $236.7

Mandatory Developing HSI STEM and 

Articulation Programs 94.11 94.3

1 296.0

Promoting Postbaccalaureate Opportunities for 

Hispanic Americans (discretionary) 12.8 13.8 28.8

Total 250.0 256.8 561.5

Discretionary 155.9 162.5 265.5

Mandatory 94.11 94.3

1 296.0

1 Mandatory appropriations are provided under Section 371 of the HEA, as amended by P.L. 111-152. These amounts include 

sequester reductions of 5.9 percent in 2020 and 5.7 percent in 2021 that went into effect October 1, 2019, and October 1, 2020, 

respectively, pursuant to the Budget Control Act of 2011 (P.L. 112-25). The amount requested for fiscal year 2022 does not reflect 

an anticipated reduction pursuant to the Budget Control Act of 2011.

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The Developing Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) program funds competitive grants to expand and 

enhance the academic quality, institutional management, fiscal stability, and self-sufficiency of colleges 

and universities that enroll large percentages of Hispanic students. In addition to the discretionary 

requested level, the Request includes mandatory funding from President Biden’s American Families Plan 

(AFP). The AFP includes nearly tripling mandatory funding authorized under the Fostering 

Undergraduate Talent by Unlocking Resources (FUTURE) Act (Section 371 of the HEA) to HBCUs, 

TCCUs, HSIs, and other MSIs. Currently, $255 million is available in mandatory funding in fiscal year 

2022 for the Title III and Title V programs authorized by Section 371 of the HEA--$155 million for the 

Title III programs and $100 million for the HSI Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics 

(STEM) and Articulation V program. The AFP would increase that funding level by $196 million, for a 

total mandatory request of $296 million.

The Promoting Postbaccalaureate Opportunities for Hispanic Americans program provides funds to 

eligible HSIs that offer a postbaccalaureate certificate or postbaccalaureate degree-granting program. The 

program is designed to help Hispanic Americans gain entry into and succeed in graduate study, a level of 

education in which they are underrepresented. 

INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION AND FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDIES (IEFLS)

BA in millions 2020 2021

2022

Request

Domestic Programs $68.1 $69.4 $69.4

Overseas Programs 8.1 8.8 8.8

Total 76.2 78.2 78.2

These programs support comprehensive language and area study centers within the United States, research 

and curriculum development, and opportunities for American scholars to study abroad. In addition to 

promoting general understanding of the peoples of other countries, the Department’s International Programs 

also serve important economic, diplomatic, defense, and other national security interests. The request would 

enable the Department to help maintain the national capacity in teaching and learning less commonly taught 

languages and associated area studies and to continue to work toward increasing the global competency of 

all U.S. students. All funds requested in fiscal year 2022 for the IEFLS programs would support new and 

continuation grants and fellowships. 

TRIBALLY CONTROLLED POSTSECONDARY CAREER AND TECHNICAL INSTITUTIONS

2020 2021

2022

Request

BA in millions $10.0 $10.6 $10.6

The Request would support awards to tribally controlled postsecondary career and technical institutions 

that meet the program’s eligibility requirements to fund instructional and student support services under the 

Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act. 

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SPECIAL PROGRAMS FOR MIGRANT STUDENTS

2020 2021

2022

Request

BA in millions $45.6 $46.1 $66.1

The Request provides $66.1 million for Special Programs for Migrant Students, an increase of $20 million 

of the 2021 appropriation, in support of the President’s goal to advance equity in education. The increase 

complements requests for other programs authorized under the Higher Education Act that provide student 

supports to underserved students so they can succeed in and graduate from college, and would support a 

significant expansion of programs that have demonstrated success in helping migrant youth who are 

particularly at risk for low educational, employment, and earnings outcomes. Special Programs for Migrant 

Students includes the High School Equivalency Program (HEP), which funds competitively selected 

projects to help low-income migratory and seasonal farmworkers and fishers earn high school diplomas or 

equivalency certificates, and the College Assistance Migrant Program (CAMP), which makes competitive 

grants to provide stipends and special services, such as tutoring and counseling, to migratory students who 

are in their first year of college. HEP and CAMP programs focus on finding and assisting migratory youth 

who have not been able—due to limited or inconsistent educational opportunity—to complete high school 

or go on to postsecondary education. 

FEDERAL TRIO PROGRAMS

BA in millions 2020 2021 

2022 

Request 

Talent Search $168,4 $171.2 $171.2

Upward Bound 352 356 473.3

Veterans Upward Bound 19.2 19.3 94.6

Upward Bound Math-Science 65.4 65.9 29.5

Educational Opportunity Centers 55.0 56.0 56.0

Student Support Services 365.9 364.1 400.5

McNair Post Baccalaureate Achievement 56.5 38.0 65.4

Staff Training 3.2 3.2 3.5

Evaluation 0.4 0 0

Administration/Peer Review 3.9 5.5 4.1

Total 1,090.0 1,097.0 1,297.8

Note: Amounts may not add due to rounding.

The TRIO programs are among the Department’s largest investments aimed at getting more students 

prepared for, into, and through postsecondary education. The request would increase funding by more than 

$200 million from the 2021 enacted level and enable the Department to make increased investments in 

student supports, including increases to Upward Bound, Veterans Upward Bound, Upward Bound MathScience, and the Student Support Services programs, increasing support for middle school, high school, 

and college students and adults, while also maintaining support for more than 1,800 TRIO projects begun 

in prior years. 

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GAINING EARLY AWARENESS AND READINESS FOR UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMS (GEAR UP)

2020 2021

2022

Request

BA in millions $365.0 $368.0 $408.0

GEAR UP provides funds to States and partnerships for early college preparation and awareness activities 

to help low-income elementary and secondary school students prepare for and pursue postsecondary 

education. Several features of GEAR UP, including targeting entire grades of students, partnering with local 

organizations and businesses, and matching Federal funds with local contributions, allow projects to serve 

large numbers of students. The request increases funding by $40 million from the 2021 enacted level and 

would support new and continuation awards for approximately 45 States and 137 Partnerships in fiscal 

year 2022. 

GRADUATE ASSISTANCE IN AREAS OF NATIONAL NEED (GAANN) 

2020 2021

2022

Request

BA in millions $23.0 $23.5 $23.5

GAANN provides fellowships, through competitive grants to postsecondary institutions, to graduate 

students with superior ability and high financial need studying in areas of national need. Participating 

graduate schools must provide assurances that they would seek talented students from traditionally 

underrepresented backgrounds. The 2022 request would support approximately 400 fellowships. 

TRANSITION PROGRAMS FOR STUDENTS WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES INTO HIGHER 

EDUCATION (TPSID)

2020 2021

2022

Request

BA in millions $11.8 $13.8 $13.8

The TPSID program supports competitive grants awarded to institutions of higher education or consortia 

of such institutions to create or expand high-quality, inclusive model comprehensive transition and 

postsecondary programs for students with intellectual disabilities. The Request would support 

approximately 25 continuation awards, including two technical assistance centers. 

CHILD CARE ACCESS MEANS PARENTS IN SCHOOL 

2020 2021

2022

Request

BA in millions $53.0 $55.0 $95.0

This competitive grant program supports the participation of low-income parents in postsecondary 

education through campus-based childcare services. Grants made to institutions of higher education must 

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be used to supplement childcare services or start a new program, not to supplant funds for current childcare 

services. The program gives priority to institutions that leverage local or institutional resources and employ 

a sliding fee scale. The Request provides an increase of $40 million and would support 372 continuation 

awards and 240 new awards. 

FUND FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION

2020 2021

2022

Request

BA in millions $24.5 $41.0 $76.0

The Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education supports a wide range of activities to support

institutional reforms and innovative programs with the potential to transform postsecondary education. This 

Request would support a new grant program focused on the growing and scaling of integrated, evidencebased approaches designed to improve student access to, success in, and completion of postsecondary 

education as well as connections to career opportunities. Proposed projects would include rigorous 

evaluations to assess the timing and mix of multiple evidence-based approaches on student outcomes, as 

well as to collect data on other factors such as cost-effectiveness and ease of implementation. In addition, 

funds would be used to develop tools (e.g., implementation playbooks) to support expanded use and scaling 

of effective practices.

TEACHER QUALITY PARTNERSHIP (TQP)

2020 2021

2022

Request

BA in millions $50.1 $52.1 $132.1

American Families Plan Mandatory BA in 

millions

— — $280.0

This program supports projects that improve the preparation of teachers, including grow your own programs 

and teacher residencies; enhance professional development activities for teachers; strengthen accountability 

for teacher preparation programs; recruit highly qualified individuals, including minorities, into the 

teaching profession; and attract talented professionals from outside the teaching pipeline into the classroom. 

The request would support approximately $91.3 million in new awards under the program. With a focus on 

teacher residencies and “grow your own” programs. 

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AUGUSTUS F. HAWKINS CENTERS OF EXCELLENCE

2020 2021

2022

Request

BA in millions — — $20.0

American Families Plan Mandatory BA in 

millions

— — 40.0

The request includes $20 million in first-time funding for the Hawkins Centers of Excellence program, 

authorized under Part B of Title II of the Higher Education Act, to support diversifying the educator 

workforce by increasing the number of high-quality teacher preparation programs at Minority Serving 

Institutions. An additional $40 million in mandatory funding would be provided under the American 

Families Plan.

Increasing the number of educators of color is a key strategy in the Administration’s equity agenda aimed 

at improving educational opportunities and outcomes for students of color. Research shows that teachers 

of color benefit all students and can have a significant impact on students of color, yet only one in five 

teachers are people of color, compared to more than half of K-12 public school students. Minority-serving 

institutions, which collectively prepare half of all teachers of color, are ideally positioned to help prepare a 

new generation of effective teachers of color for high-need schools. The Administration would give priority 

in making new awards to applicants that propose to incorporate evidence-based components and practices 

into their teacher preparation programs to the greatest extent possible.

The Administration would give priority in making new awards to applicants that propose to incorporate 

evidence-based components and practices into their teacher preparation programs to the greatest extent 

possible. 

HEALTH PROFESSIONALS OF THE FUTURE 

2020 2021

2022

Request

American Families Plan Mandatory BA in 

millions — — $200.0

This program would make competitive grants to Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), 

Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCCUs), and Minority-Serving Institutions (MSIs) such as Hispanicserving institutions (HSIs) and Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-serving institutions 

(AANAPISIs) to create or expand graduate programsthat prepare students for high-skilled jobs in the health 

care sector and diversify the healthcare sector pipeline. Employment in healthcare occupations is projected 

to grow 15 percent from 2019 to 2029, much faster than the average for all occupations. HBCUs, TCCUs, 

and MSIs are in a unique position to help students of color fill these in-demand, high-paying jobs, in part 

because they already propel more students from the lowest income quintile to the top income quintile than 

other universities by preparing a high proportion of successful Black professionals in fields such as 

medicine, law, and STEM. This proposal, together with other new investments in HBCUs and MSIs under 

the American Families Plan, would help expand this record of success in the healthcare sector.

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COMPLETION GRANTS 

2020 2021

2022

Request

American Families Plan Mandatory BA in 

millions — — $6,200.0

This program would invest $62 billion over 10 years under the American Families Plan in grants to States 

and Tribes to support a comprehensive set of completion and retention activities at colleges and universities 

that serve high numbers of low-income students. Funds would be distributed to States and Tribes based on 

a formula that accounts for low-income students enrolled in both public and non-profit colleges, and 

grantees would give priority in allocating funds to underserved institutions enrolling large proportions of 

low-income students, particularly community colleges. Funds could be used for a variety of evidence-based 

and promising practices to support student retention, completion and success both at the State and 

institutional level, such as comprehensive academic support services (e.g., faculty and peer counseling, use 

of real-time data on student progress, and incentives for students to stay on track), direct student support 

services (e.g., mental health services, childcare, transportation, emergency financial assistance, assistance 

in addressing food or housing instability), career coaching and networking, career pathways; and improving 

transfer student success.

COMMUNITY COLLEGE INFRASTRUCTURE

2020 2021

2022

Request

American Jobs Plan Mandatory BA in millions — — $2,400.0

The American Jobs Plan would provide $2.4 billion in mandatory funding in 2022, and $12 billion over 

five years, for grants to invest in community college facilities and technology in order to help protect the 

health and safety of students and faculty, address education deserts (particularly for rural communities), 

grow local economies, improve energy efficiency and resilience, and narrow funding inequities. States will 

be responsible for using the funds to address both existing physical and technological infrastructure needs 

at community colleges and to expand access to community college in education deserts. 

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HOWARD UNIVERSITY

BA in millions 2020 2021

2022

Request

General Support $212.7 $216.7 $226.7

Howard University Hospital 27.3 34.3 34.3

Total 240.0 251.0 261.0

Howard University is a congressionally chartered HBCU that plays an important role in providing 

disadvantaged individuals, particularly Blacks or African Americans, with access to a high-quality

postsecondary education. The fiscal year 2022 Request would maintain strong support for Howard 

University’s academic and research programs, serving undergraduate, graduate, and professional students 

and the Howard University Hospital. Federal support for the Hospital enables provision of medical, dental, 

and other health-related education, research, and training opportunities for graduate and professional 

students. The Request includes $3.4 million for Howard University’s endowment, which is designed to 

assist the University in increasing its financial strength and independence. The Request also proposes to 

lift the restriction in the HBCU Capital Financing Program to allow Howard University access to the 

Program. 

ACADEMIC FACILITIES 

BA in millions

2020 2021

2022

Request

HBCU Capital Financing Program $46.5 $48.5 $20.5

CHAFL Federal Administration 0.4 0.4 0.4

These programs support the construction, reconstruction, and renovation of academic facilities at 

institutions of higher education. The Request for the HBCU Capital Financing Program would support the 

management and servicing of loan guarantees on previously issued loans, and includes $20 million in loan 

subsidy that would allow the program to guarantee $240 million in new loans in 2022. Funds also would 

be used to continue technical assistance services to help HBCUs increase their fiscal stability and improve 

their access to capital markets. The Request also proposes to lift the restriction in the HBCU Capital 

Financing Program to allow Howard University access to the Program.

Funding for College Housing Administration Facilities Loans (CHAFL) Federal Administration is used 

solely to manage and service existing portfolios of facilities loans and grants made in prior years.

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F. INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION SCIENCES

OVERVIEW

The Institute of Education Sciences (IES) supports sustained programs of research, statistics, and evaluation 

to study and provide solutions to the challenges faced by schools, teachers, and learners. Investment in 

research, statistics, and evaluation activities is critical in order to identify effective instructional and 

program practices, track student achievement, and measure the impact of educational reform. Through its 

four centers—the National Center for Education Research, the National Center for Education Statistics, the 

National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, and the National Center for Special 

Education Research—IES ensures the Federal investment in education research, statistics, and evaluation 

is of high quality and relevant to the needs of educators and policymakers. The Administration requests 

$737.5 million for IES activities, $95.0 million more than 2021 appropriation. 

RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, AND DISSEMINATION

2020 2021

2022

Request

BA in millions $195.9 $197.9 $267.9

The Request supports critical investments in education research, development, dissemination, and 

evaluation that provide parents, teachers, schools, and policymakers with evidence-based information on 

effective educational practices. The requested increase would allow additional investments in research on 

understanding and mitigating the effects of learning loss caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. 

STATISTICS

2022

2020 2021 Request

BA in millions $110.5 $111.5 $111.5

The Department’s Statistics program—operated primarily through competitively awarded contracts 

administered by National Center for Education Statistics—provides general statistics about trends in 

education, collects data to monitor reform and measure educational progress, and informs the IES research 

agenda. The Request would support the collection, analysis, and dissemination of education-related 

statistics in response to both legislative requirements and to the particular needs of data providers, data 

users, and educational researchers. 

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REGIONAL EDUCATIONAL LABORATORIES 

2020 2021

2022

Request

BA in millions $56.0 $57.0 $57.0

Funds support a network of 10 regional laboratories that provide expert advice, including training and 

technical assistance, to help States and school districts apply proven research findings in their school 

improvement efforts.

ASSESSMENT 

2020 2021

2022

Request

BA in millions $160.7 $172.7 $187.7

The Request includes a $15 million increase to the established assessment schedule under the ongoing 

National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) and to begin initial research and development 

activities to maintain assessment quality while reducing future program costs. NAEP measures and reports 

on the status of and trends in student learning over time on a subject-by-subject basis and makes objective 

information on student performance available to policymakers, educators, parents, and the public. As the 

largest nationally representative and continuing assessment of what American students know and can do, 

NAEP has become a key measure of our Nation’s educational performance. The Request maintains level 

funding for the National Assessment Governing Board (NAGB), which formulates policy for NAEP. 

RESEARCH IN SPECIAL EDUCATION 

2020 2021

2022

Request

BA in millions $56.5 $58.5 $58.5

Funds support a comprehensive program of special education research designed to expand the knowledge 

and understanding of infants, toddlers, and children with disabilities; answer questions about how children 

with disabilities develop and learn; and learn how best to support their development through improved 

teaching and special education and related services. Continued investment in such long-term programs of 

research is necessary to accumulate empirical knowledge and develop evidence-based practices and policies 

that will result in improved academic achievement, social and emotional well- being, behavior, and physical 

development for children with disabilities. 

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STATEWIDE LONGITUDINAL DATA SYSTEMS 

2020 2021

2022

Request

BA in millions $33.0 $33.5 $33.5

Funds support competitive grant awards to States to foster the design, development, implementation, and 

use of longitudinal data systems. In addition, funds would support awards to public and private agencies to 

improve data coordination, quality, and use at the local, State, and national levels. 

SPECIAL EDUCATION STUDIES AND EVALUATIONS 

2020 2021

2022

Request

BA in millions $10.8 $11.3 $21.3

This program supports studies to assess the implementation of the Individuals with Disabilities Education 

Act (IDEA) and the effectiveness of State and local efforts to provide special education and early 

intervention programs and services to infants, toddlers, and children with disabilities. The requested 

increase would fund a study of special education expenditures to provide local, State, and Federal 

policymakers with better data on the costs of special education and related services.

. 

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G. DEPARTMENTAL MANAGEMENT

OVERVIEW

Congress established the Department of Education as a Cabinet level agency in 1980. Today, the 

Department supports programs that touch every area and level of education. The Department's early 

learning, elementary, and secondary education programs annually serve more than 17,000 school districts 

and more than 56 million students attending more than 98,000 public and 32,000 private schools. 

Department programs also provide grant, loan, and work-study assistance to over 10 million postsecondary 

students at over 6,000 institutions of higher education. 

The Department is responsible for administering education programs authorized and funded by Congress 

and signed into law by the President. This responsibility involves developing regulations and policy 

guidance regarding program operations, determining how program funds are awarded to recipients 

consistent with statutory requirements, and ensuring programs are operated fairly and conform to statutes 

and laws prohibiting discrimination in federally funded activities. The Department also collects data and 

conducts research on education to help focus attention on education issues of national importance.

Most Federal funds for education are distributed using one of three methods: (1) a statutory formula based 

on certain eligibility requirements, such as the number of low-income students in a school district; (2) a 

competitive process aimed at identifying the most promising proposals or projects targeting a particular 

educational purpose; or (3) an assessment of financial need, such as the ability of a student or family to pay 

for college. 

Key programs include the Title I Grants to Local Educational Agencies and Title I Equity Grants, for which 

$36.5 billion would help approximately 25 million students in high-poverty schools make progress toward 

State academic standards, including $20 billion for Title I Equity Grants; and $15.5 billion for the 

Individuals with Disabilities Education Act Part B Grants to States to help States and school districts meet 

the special education needs of 7.6 million students with disabilities. Key programs also include Federal Pell 

Grants, which would make available $40.9 billion in need-based grants to 7.3 million students enrolled in 

postsecondary institutions; and the postsecondary student loan programs, which would help provide 

roughly $91.2 billion in new Direct Loans to help students and families pay for college. 

The Department’s programs and responsibilities have grown substantially over the past decade. Some of 

the growth has resulted from greater demands that were placed on the Department to secure sensitive data, 

increase transparency through increased data reporting, provide enhanced oversight and enforcement of 

programs and laws, and award and manage massive new grant programs (providing close to $280 billion 

for grants to states, school districts, and institutions of higher education) in response to the COVID-19 

pandemic. Federal Student Aid has been tasked with modernizing and improving the entire student aid 

process to better help students and families, as well as implementing major legislation, including the 

FAFSA® Simplification Act and FUTURE Act.

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SALARIES AND EXPENSES (S&E) OVERVIEW 

Departmental Management

 BA in millions

2020 2021

2022

Request

Program Administration $430.0 $430.0 $480.01

Office for Civil Rights 130.0 131.0 144.0

Office of Inspector General 63.0 63.0 70.1

Student Aid Administration 1,768.9 1,853.9 2,053.9

Other2 8.7 8.7 8.7

Total 2,400.6 2,486.6 2,756.7

Full-Time Equivalent Employment (FTE)

 (whole numbers) 

Program Administration 1,489 1,580 1,603

Office for Civil Rights 536 593 623

Office of Inspector General 213 227 236

Student Aid Administration 1,479 1,584 1,584

Other2 16 18 19

Total3 3,733 4,002 4,065

1 Includes $13 million for Building Modernization.

2 Includes small Federal Credit Administration accounts and S&E activities in program accounts.

3 Actual FTE usage in FY 2020; target for FY 2021 and FY 2022. FTE in FY 2021 and FY 2022 excludes CARES, CRRSA, and 

ARP Act FTE. 

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The Department is requesting $2.8 billion for its S&E budget accounts in fiscal year 2022, an increase of

$270.1 million, over the fiscal year 2021 appropriation. The requested fiscal year 2022 increase focuses on 

key departmental policy and management priorities. These include an increase of $13 million for the Office 

for Civil Rights to advance equity in educational opportunity and delivery through an increased investment 

in civil rights enforcement; an increase of $200 million for Student Aid Administration to implement the 

FAFSA® Simplification Act and FUTURE Act, provide high-quality loan servicing to more than 40 million 

student loan borrowers, and protect the personally identifiable information of around 75 million parents and 

students; and increased funding for continued IT security improvements to ensure the integrity of the 

Department of Education systems and prevent potential breaches. Funding is also requested for building 

modernization and renovation activities which will reduce the Department’s overall footprint and save on 

future rent costs by vacating existing space. 

In fiscal year 2022, the Request supports 4,065 Full-Time Equivalents (FTE) Employment, a net increase 

of 63 FTE above the fiscal year 2021 appropriation. 

PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION

The Program Administration account provides administrative support for most programs and offices in the 

Department. The fiscal year 2022 Request totals $480.0 million, an increase of $50.0 million above the 

fiscal year 2021 appropriation. The Request includes $293.8 million for personnel compensation and

benefits to support 1,603 FTE, an increase of $14.6 million above the fiscal year 2021 level of

$279.2 million.

Salaries and Expenses non-personnel costs cover such items as travel, rent, mail, telephones, utilities, 

printing, information technology (IT) services and security, contractual services, equipment, supplies, and 

other services. The total Request for non-personnel activities in fiscal year 2022 is $186.2 million, an 

increase of $35.0 million from the fiscal year 2021 appropriation of $151.2 million. Approximately 70 

percent of the total non-personnel Request is to cover Program Administration’s share of the Department’s 

centralized services. The centralized services Request totals $120.8 million for fiscal year 2022, an increase 

of $15.2 million over the fiscal year 2021 appropriation.

The overall account increase of $50.0 million is primarily needed for: (1) an increase of 23 FTE and a 2.7 

percent pay raise plus benefits increases; (2) building modernization and renovation activities with a goal 

of reducing the Department’s future rent costs and; (3) continued improvements to the Department’s IT 

security to ensure the integrity of Department of Education data as well as to prevent potential IT security 

breaches. The Request for non-personnel activities to support Building Modernization in fiscal year 2022 

is $13.0 million; no funds were provided in fiscal year 2021. 

STUDENT AID ADMINISTRATION

The Student Aid Administration account provides funds to administer the Federal student aid programs 

authorized under Title IV of the Higher Education Act. These programs are the Nation’s largest source of 

financial aid for postsecondary students, which helps students and families fund education costs and training 

beyond high school. 

This account also supports functions across the student aid lifecycle to include, educating students and 

families on sources for obtaining aid as well as federal student loans and costs associated with processing 

financial aid applications. These funds support financial tools, supports outstanding loans and collections 

activities on defaulted federal loans and oversight of Title IV programs. 

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In fiscal year 2021, FSA provided $121 billion in new Federal student aid grants and loans (excluding 

Direct Consolidation Loans) to approximately 9.7 million postsecondary students and their families. These 

students attended over 6,000 institutions of higher education. 

The SAFRA Act ended the origination of new loans under the Federal Family Education Loan (FFEL) 

program. Since July 1, 2010, new loans are originated and serviced through the Direct Loan (DL) program 

administered by the Department of Education. Private lenders and guaranty agencies service and collect 

outstanding non-defaulted loans from the FFEL portfolio. The Department contracts with nine servicers to 

service the Department’s portfolio of over 42 million borrowers. 

The Department is requesting $2.054 billion to administer the Federal student aid programs in fiscal year 

2022, an increase of $200 million over the fiscal year 2021 appropriation. The requested funds are necessary 

to implement the FAFSA® Simplification Act and FUTURE Act, provide high-quality loan servicing to more 

than 40 million student loan borrowers, and protect the personally identifiable information for around 75 

million parents and students. 

OFFICE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS

The Department’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) investigates discrimination complaints, conducts 

compliance reviews, monitors corrective action plans, and provides technical assistance on civil rights 

issues. Since fiscal year 2009, the number of complaints have almost doubled through fiscal year 2020, 

while the number of investigative staff have only increased slightly over the same period. The fiscal year 

2022 Request includes 30 additional FTE for OCR. 

The fiscal year 2022 Request for OCR is $144.0 million, which is an increase of $13.0 million above the

fiscal year 2021 appropriation. About $108.1 million of the requested additional funds, or 75 percent, of 

the Request is for staff pay and benefits for 623 FTE. The remaining $35.9 million is for non-pay projects 

and includes 6.5 million for information technology services, including the contract for the Civil Rights 

Data Collection. The requested funds would ensure essential program support to resolve complaints of 

discrimination filed by the public and to ensure that institutions receiving Federal financial assistance are 

in compliance with the civil rights laws enforced by OCR. 

OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL

The Office of Inspector General (OIG) conducts audits and investigations of the Department’s programs

and activities to help ensure accountability for taxpayer-provided funds and to identify management 

improvements. The fiscal year 2022 Request for the OIG is $70.1 million, an increase of $7.1 million over 

the fiscal year 2021 appropriation. Approximately 68 percent of this amount, or $47.5 million, is for 

personnel compensation and benefits to support a staffing level of 236 FTE.

The non-personnel Request of $22.6 million includes $1.3 million to contract for the mandatory annual 

audit of the Department’s financial statements. The scope of the audit would include the examination and 

analysis of account balances, review of applicable financial systems, and evaluation of internal controls and 

compliance with significant laws and regulations. Additionally, the non-personnel Request includes funds 

to support the Council of Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency, and to continue to develop the 

ability to perform predictive analytics with a tool to identify patterns of fraud and risk, allowing OIG to 

better target its audit and investigative work.

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III. APPENDIX

A. Detailed Budget Table by Program

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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION FISCAL YEAR 2022 PRESIDENT'S BUDGET REQUEST

(in thousands of dollars)

 5/28/2021

Amount Percent

 1.

(a) Grants to local educational agencies (ESEA I-A):

i. Basic grants (section 1124)

Annual appropriation D 5,468,625 5,695,625 5,695,625 0 0.00%

Advance for succeeding fiscal year D 990,776 763,776 763,776 0 0.00%

ii. Concentration grants (section 1124A)

Advance for succeeding fiscal year D 1,362,301 1,362,301 1,362,301 0 0.00%

iii. Targeted grants (section 1125) D 0 0 0 0 ---

Advance for succeeding fiscal year D 4,244,050 4,357,550 4,357,550 0 0.00%

iv. Education finance incentive grants (section 1125A) D 0 0 0 0 ---

Advance for succeeding fiscal year D 4,244,050 4,357,550 4,357,550 0 0.00%

Subtotal, Grants to LEAs D 16,309,802 16,536,802 16,536,802 0 0.00%

(b) Title I equity grants (proposed legislation) D 0 0 20,000,000 20,000,000 ---

Subtotal, Title I programs D 16,309,802 16,536,802 36,536,802 20,000,000 120.94%

Annual appropriation D 5,468,625 5,695,625 5,695,625 0 0.00%

Advance for succeeding fiscal year D 10,841,177 10,841,177 10,841,177 0 0.00%

1) D = discretionary program; M = mandatory program

2) Pursuant to the Budget Control Act of 2011 (P.L. 112-25), for most mandatory programs, with the exception of Pell Grants, Credit Liquidating, and Credit Reestimates the levels shown in the 2020 

Appropriation column reflect the 5.9 percent reduction that went into effect on October 1, 2019; the levels shown in the 2021 Appropriation column reflect the 5.7 percent reduction that went into effect 

on October 1, 2020; and the levels shown in the 2022 Appropriation column reflect the 5.7 percent reduction that, under current law, will go into effect on October 1, 2021.

3) Detail may not add to totals due to rounding. 

2020 

Appropriation

NOTES:

2022 President's Budget Compared to 

2021 2021 Appropriation

Appropriation

2022 President's 

Budget

Cat 

Code

Title I programs

Education for the Disadvantaged

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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION FISCAL YEAR 2022 PRESIDENT'S BUDGET REQUEST

(in thousands of dollars)

 5/28/2021

Amount Percent

2020 

Appropriation

2022 President's Budget Compared to 

2021 2021 Appropriation

Appropriation

2022 President's 

Budget

Cat 

Code

 2. Comprehensive literacy development grants (ESEA II-B-2, section 2222) D 192,000 192,000 192,000 0 0.00%

 3. Innovative approaches to literacy (ESEA II-B-2, section 2226) D 27,000 28,000 28,000 0 0.00%

 4.

(a) Migrant (ESEA I-C) D 374,751 375,626 375,626 0 0.00%

(b) Neglected and delinquent (ESEA I-D) D 47,614 48,239 48,239 0 0.00%

Subtotal, State agency programs 422,365 423,865 423,865 0 0.00%

 5. Special programs for migrant students (HEA IV-A-5) D 45,623 46,123 66,123 20,000 43.36%

D 16,996,790 17,226,790 37,246,790 20,020,000 116.21%

Total, Budget authority D 16,996,790 17,226,790 37,246,790 20,020,000 116.21%

Current 6,155,613 6,385,613 26,405,613 20,020,000 313.52%

Prior year's advance 10,841,177 10,841,177 10,841,177 0 0.00%

1. Payments for federally connected children (section 7003):

(a) Basic support payments (section 7003(b)) D 1,340,242 1,354,242 1,394,242 40,000 2.95%

(b) Payments for children with disabilities (section 7003(d)) D 48,316 48,316 48,316 0 0.00%

Subtotal 1,388,558 1,402,558 1,442,558 40,000 2.85%

2. Facilities maintenance (section 7008) D 4,835 4,835 4,835 0 0.00%

3. Construction (section 7007) D 17,406 17,406 17,406 0 0.00%

4. Payments for Federal property (section 7002) D 75,313 76,313 76,313 0 0.00%

D 1,486,112 1,501,112 1,541,112 40,000 2.66%

Education for the Disadvantaged (continued)

State agency programs:

Total, Appropriation

Total 

Impact Aid (ESEA VII)

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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION FISCAL YEAR 2022 PRESIDENT'S BUDGET REQUEST

(in thousands of dollars)

 5/28/2021

Amount Percent

2020 

Appropriation

2022 President's Budget Compared to 

2021 2021 Appropriation

Appropriation

2022 President's 

Budget

Cat 

Code

 1. Supporting effective instruction State grants (ESEA II-A) 

Annual appropriation D 450,389 461,639 467,139 5,500 1.19%

Advance for succeeding fiscal year D 1,681,441 1,681,441 1,681,441 0 0.00%

Subtotal D 2,131,830 2,143,080 2,148,580 5,500 0.26%

 2. 21st century community learning centers (ESEA IV-B) D 1,249,673 1,259,673 1,309,673 50,000 3.97%

 3. State assessments (ESEA I-B, section 1201-1203) D 378,000 378,000 378,000 0 0.00%

 4. Education for homeless children and youths (MVHAA Title VII-B) D 101,500 106,500 106,500 0 0.00%

 5. Native Hawaiian education (ESEA VI-B) D 36,897 37,397 37,397 0 0.00%

 6. Alaska Native education (ESEA VI-C) D 35,953 36,453 36,453 0 0.00%

 7. Training and advisory services (CRA IV) D 6,575 6,575 6,575 0 0.00%

 8. Rural education (ESEA V-B) D 185,840 187,840 192,840 5,000 2.66%

 9. Supplemental education grants (Compact of Free Association Act) D 16,699 16,699 19,657 2,958 17.71%

 10. Comprehensive centers (ETAA section 203) D 52,000 52,000 52,000 0 0.00%

 11. Student support and academic enrichment grants (ESEA IV-A) D 1,210,000 1,220,000 1,220,000 0 0.00%

 12. School-Based Health Professionals (proposed legislation) D 0 0 1,000,000 1,000,000 ---

 13. Climate Resilient Schools (proposed legislation) D 0 0 25,000 25,000 ---

D 5,404,967 5,444,217 6,532,675 1,088,458 19.99%

Total, Budget authority D 5,404,967 5,444,217 6,532,675 1,088,458 19.99%

Current 3,723,526 3,762,776 4,851,234 1,088,458 28.93%

Prior year's advance 1,681,441 1,681,441 1,681,441 0 0.00%

1. School safety national activities (ESEA IV-F-3, section 4631) D 105,000 106,000 116,000 10,000 9.43%

2. Promise neighborhoods (ESEA IV-F-2, section 4624) D 80,000 81,000 91,000 10,000 12.35%

3. Full-service community schools (ESEA IV-F-2, section 4625) D 25,000 30,000 443,000 413,000 1376.67%

D 210,000 217,000 650,000 433,000 199.54%

Total, Appropriation

 Total

School Improvement Programs

Safe Schools and Citizenship Education

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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION FISCAL YEAR 2022 PRESIDENT'S BUDGET REQUEST

(in thousands of dollars)

 5/28/2021

Amount Percent

2020 

Appropriation

2022 President's Budget Compared to 

2021 2021 Appropriation

Appropriation

2022 President's 

Budget

Cat 

Code

1. Grants to local educational agencies (Part A-1) D 105,381 105,381 110,381 5,000 4.74%

2. Special programs for Indian children (Part A-2) D 67,993 67,993 67,993 0 0.00%

3. National activities (Part A-3) D 7,365 7,865 7,865 0 0.00%

D 180,739 181,239 186,239 5,000 2.76%

 1. Education innovation and research (ESEA IV-F-1) D 190,000 194,000 194,000 0 0.00%

 2. Teacher and school leader incentive grants (ESEA II-B-1) D 200,000 200,000 200,000 0 0.00%

 3. American history and civics education (ESEA II-B-3) D 4,815 5,250 5,250 0 0.00%

 4. Supporting effective educator development (SEED) (ESEA II-B-4, section 2242) D 80,000 80,000 80,000 0 0.00%

 5. Charter schools grants (ESEA IV-C) D 440,000 440,000 440,000 0 0.00%

 6. Magnet schools assistance (ESEA IV-D) D 107,000 109,000 149,000 40,000 36.70%

 7. Ready to learn programming (ESEA IV-F-4, section 4643) D 29,000 29,500 29,500 0 0.00%

 8. Arts in education (ESEA IV-F-4, section 4642) D 30,000 30,500 30,500 0 0.00%

 9. Javits gifted and talented education (ESEA IV-F-4, section 4644) D 13,000 13,500 13,500 0 0.00%

 10. Statewide family engagement centers (ESEA IV-E) D 10,000 12,500 12,500 0 0.00%

 11. D 0 0 30,000 30,000 ---

 12. Fostering Diverse Schools (proposed legislation) D 0 0 100,000 100,000 ---

 13. M 0 0 200,000 200,000 ---

 14. Supporting in-Demand Credentials for Teachers (proposed legislation) M 0 0 1,600,000 1,600,000 ---

D 1,103,815 1,114,250 3,084,250 1,970,000 176.80%

Discretionary D 1,103,815 1,114,250 1,284,250 170,000 15.26%

Mandatory M 0 0 1,800,000 1,800,000 ---

D 787,400 797,400 917,400 120,000 15.05%

1. K-12 School infrastructure (proposed legislation) M 0 0 10,000,000 10,000,000 ---

2. Community college infrastructure (proposed legislation) M 0 0 2,400,000 2,400,000 ---

Total M 0 0 12,400,000 12,400,000 ---

Expanding Opportunities for Teacher Leadership Development (proposed legislation)

English Language Acquisition (ESEA III-A)

Indian Education (ESEA VI)

Total

Total 

School Leader Recruitment and Support (ESEA II-B-4, section 2243)

Innovation and Improvement

Infrastructure

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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION FISCAL YEAR 2022 PRESIDENT'S BUDGET REQUEST

(in thousands of dollars)

 5/28/2021

Amount Percent

2020 

Appropriation

2022 President's Budget Compared to 

2021 2021 Appropriation

Appropriation

2022 President's 

Budget

Cat 

Code

1. State grants:

(a) Grants to States (IDEA B-611)

Annual appropriation D 3,481,009 3,654,074 6,254,046 2,599,972 71.15%

Advance for succeeding fiscal year D 9,283,383 9,283,383 9,283,383 0 0.00%

Subtotal 12,764,392 12,937,457 15,537,429 2,599,972 20.10%

(b) Preschool grants (IDEA B-619) D 394,120 397,620 502,620 105,000 26.41%

(c) Grants for infants and families (IDEA C) D 477,000 481,850 731,850 250,000 51.88%

Subtotal, State grants 13,635,512 13,816,927 16,771,899 2,954,972 21.39%

2. National activities (IDEA D):

(a) State personnel development (subpart 1) D 38,630 38,630 38,630 0 0.00%

(b) Technical assistance and dissemination (section 663) D 44,345 44,345 49,345 5,000 11.28%

(c) Personnel preparation (section 662) D 89,700 90,200 250,000 159,800 177.16%

(d( Personnel preparation (section 662) M 0 0 90,000 90,000 ---

(e) Parent information centers (sections 671-673) D 27,411 27,411 30,152 2,741 10.00%

(f) Educational technology, media, and materials (section 674) D 29,547 29,547 29,547 0 0.00%

Subtotal, Discretionary D 229,633 230,133 397,674 167,541 72.80%

Subtotal, Mandatory M 0 0 90,000 90,000 ---

3. Special Olympics education programs (Special Olympics Sport and Empowerment Act) D 20,083 23,683 23,683 0 0.00%

13,885,228 14,070,743 17,283,256 3,212,513 22.83%

Discretionary D 13,885,228 14,070,743 17,193,256 3,122,513 22.19%

Mandatory M 0 0 90,000 90,000 ---

Current 4,601,845 4,787,360 7,999,873 3,212,513 67.10%

Prior year's advance 9,283,383 9,283,383 9,283,383 0 0.00%

Total, Appropriation

Special Education 

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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION FISCAL YEAR 2022 PRESIDENT'S BUDGET REQUEST

(in thousands of dollars)

 5/28/2021

Amount Percent

2020 

Appropriation

2022 President's Budget Compared to 

2021 2021 Appropriation

Appropriation

2022 President's 

Budget

Cat 

Code

1. Vocational rehabilitation State grants:

(a) Grants to States (RA Title I-A, sections 110 and 111) M 3,351,798 3,414,895 3,455,328 40,433 1.18%

(b) Grants to Indians (RA Title I-C) M 45,250 50,650 51,803 1,153 2.28%

Subtotal M 3,397,048 3,465,545 3,507,131 41,586 1.20%

Mandatory baseline M 3,610,040 3,675,021 3,719,121 44,100 1.20%

 2. Client assistance State grants (RA section 112) D 13,000 13,000 13,000 0 0.00%

 3. Training (RA section 302) D 29,388 29,388 29,388 0 0.00%

 4. Demonstration and training programs (RA section 303) D 5,796 5,796 40,796 35,000 603.86%

 5. Protection and advocacy of individual rights (RA section 509) D 17,650 18,150 18,150 0 0.00%

 6. Supported employment State grants (RA VI) D 22,548 22,548 22,548 0 0.00%

 7. Independent living services for older blind individuals (RA VII, Chapter 2) D 33,317 33,317 33,317 0 0.00%

 8. Helen Keller National Center for Deaf-Blind Youths and Adults (HKNCA) D 16,000 17,000 18,500 1,500 8.82%

Subtotal 137,699 139,199 175,699 36,500 26.22%

3,534,747 3,604,744 3,682,830 78,086 2.17%

Discretionary D 137,699 139,199 175,699 36,500 26.22%

Mandatory M 3,397,048 3,465,545 3,507,131 41,586 1.20%

D 32,431 34,431 37,431 3,000 8.71%

D 79,500 81,500 84,500 3,000 3.68%

Gallaudet University (EDA I-A and section 207) D 137,361 140,361 143,361 3,000 2.14%

Total

Rehabilitation Services 

American Printing House for the Blind (20 U.S.C. 101 et seq.)

National Technical Institute for the Deaf (EDA I-B and section 207)

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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION FISCAL YEAR 2022 PRESIDENT'S BUDGET REQUEST

(in thousands of dollars)

 5/28/2021

Amount Percent

2020 

Appropriation

2022 President's Budget Compared to 

2021 2021 Appropriation

Appropriation

2022 President's 

Budget

Cat 

Code

1. Career and technical education (Carl D. Perkins CTEA):

(a) State grants (Title I)

Annual appropriation D 491,598 543,848 563,848 20,000 3.68%

Advance for succeeding fiscal year D 791,000 791,000 791,000 0 0.00%

Subtotal 1,282,598 1,334,848 1,354,848 20,000 1.50%

(b) National programs (section 114) D 7,421 7,421 115,421 108,000 1455.33%

(c) Expanded Career Pathways for Middle and High School Students (proposed legislation) M 0 0 1,000,000 1,000,000 ---

Subtotal, Discretionary D 1,290,019 1,342,269 1,470,269 128,000 9.54%

Subtotal, Mandatory M 0 0 1,000,000 1,000,000 ---

Subtotal, Career and technical education 1,290,019 1,342,269 2,470,269 1,128,000 84.04%

2. Adult education:

(a) Adult basic and literacy education State grants (AEFLA) D 656,955 674,955 674,955 0 0.00%

(b) Adult education State grants (proposed legislation) M 0 0 100,000 100,000 ---

(c) National leadership activities (AEFLA section 242) D 13,712 13,712 38,712 25,000 182.32%

Subtotal, Discretionary D 670,667 688,667 713,667 25,000 3.63%

Subtotal, Mandatory M 0 0 100,000 100,000 ---

Subtotal, Adult education 670,667 688,667 813,667 125,000 18.15%

1,960,686 2,030,936 3,283,936 1,253,000 61.70%

Discretionary D 1,960,686 2,030,936 2,183,936 153,000 7.53%

Mandatory M 0 0 1,100,000 1,100,000 ---

Current 1,169,686 1,239,936 2,492,936 1,253,000 101.05%

Prior year's advance 791,000 791,000 791,000 0 0.00%

Career, Technical, and Adult Education

Total, Appropriation

73
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION FISCAL YEAR 2022 PRESIDENT'S BUDGET REQUEST

(in thousands of dollars)

 5/28/2021

Amount Percent

2020 

Appropriation

2022 President's Budget Compared to 

2021 2021 Appropriation

Appropriation

2022 President's 

Budget

Cat 

Code

1. Federal Pell grants (HEA IV-A-1):

(a) Discretionary Pell grants D 22,475,352 22,475,352 25,475,352 3,000,000 13.35%

(b) Mandatory Pell grants M 5,571,420 5,412,000 14,190,000 8,778,000 162.20%

(c) Mandatory Funding for Discretionary Program Costs M 1,405,000 1,142,000 1,007,000 (135,000) -11.82%

Subtotal, Federal Pell grants 29,451,772 29,029,352 40,672,352 11,643,000 40.11%

Discretionary D 22,475,352 22,475,352 25,475,352 3,000,000 13.35%

Mandatory M 6,976,420 6,554,000 15,197,000 8,643,000 131.87%

Federal Pell Grants Program Information (memorandum entry):

Discretionary program costs D 21,864,000 22,683,000 26,757,000 4,074,000 17.96%

Mandatory program costs M 5,301,000 5,412,000 14,190,000 8,778,000 162.20%

Total, program costs 27,165,000 28,095,000 40,947,000 12,852,000 45.74%

Maximum award (in whole dollars)

Base award 5,285 5,435 5,835 400 7.36%

Mandatory add-on 1,060 1,060 2,535 1,475 139.15%

Total maximum award 6,345 6,495 8,370 1,875 28.87%

Recipients (in thousands) 6,303 6,456 7,312 856 13.26%

Student Financial Assistance

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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION FISCAL YEAR 2022 PRESIDENT'S BUDGET REQUEST

(in thousands of dollars)

 5/28/2021

Amount Percent

2020 

Appropriation

2022 President's Budget Compared to 

2021 2021 Appropriation

Appropriation

2022 President's 

Budget

Cat 

Code

2. Campus-based programs:

(a) Federal supplemental educational opportunity grants (HEA IV-A-3) D 865,000 880,000 880,000 0 0.00%

(b) Federal work-study (HEA IV-C) D 1,180,000 1,190,000 1,190,000 0 0.00%

Subtotal, Campus-based programs 2,045,000 2,070,000 2,070,000 0 0.00%

3. Iraq and Afghanistan service grants (P.L. 111-39) M 513 551 783 232 42.11%

31,497,285 31,099,903 42,743,135 11,643,232 37.44%

Discretionary D 24,520,352 24,545,352 27,545,352 3,000,000 12.22%

Mandatory M 6,976,933 6,554,551 15,197,783 8,643,232 131.87%

 1. New loan subsidy M 29,053 27,285 82,090 54,805 200.86%

 2. Upward reestimate of existing loans M 10,858 78,281 0 (78,281) -100.00%

 3. Downward reestimate of existing loans (non-add) M (36,231) (3,225) 0 3,225 -100.00%

 4. Net reestimate of existing loans (non-add) M (25,373) 75,056 0 (75,056) -100.00%

 5. Upward modification of existing loans M 15,718 42,127 0 (42,127) -100.00%

 6. Net modification of existing loans (non-add) M 15,718 42,127 0 (42,127) -100.00%

Subtotal, loan subsidies 55,629 147,693 82,090 (65,603) -44.42%

Subtotal, new loan subsidies and net reestimate (non-add) 19,398 144,468 82,090 (62,378) -43.18%

M 55,629 147,693 82,090 (65,603) -44.42%

TEACH Grants (HEA IV-A-9)

Student Financial Assistance (continued)

Total 

Total

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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION FISCAL YEAR 2022 PRESIDENT'S BUDGET REQUEST

(in thousands of dollars)

 5/28/2021

Amount Percent

2020 

Appropriation

2022 President's Budget Compared to 

2021 2021 Appropriation

Appropriation

2022 President's 

Budget

Cat 

Code

 1. New loan subsidies M 9,925,253 8,101,536 12,323,075 4,221,539 52.11%

 2. New net loan subsidy (non-add) M 6,838,227 3,225,230 8,603,771 5,378,541 166.76%

 3. Upward reestimate of existing loans M 64,642,541 53,674,813 0 (53,674,813) -100.00%

 4. Downward reestimate of existing loans (non-add) M (1,436,593) -838,915 0 838,915 -100.00%

 5. Net reestimate of existing loans (non-add) M 63,205,948 52,835,898 0 (52,835,898) -100.00%

 6. Upward modification of existing loans M 39,575,735 36,346,834 0 (36,346,834) -100.00%

 7. Net modification of existing loans (non-add) M 39,575,735 36,346,834 0 (36,346,834) -100.00%

 8. Temporary Expanded Public Service Loan Forgiveness1 D 50,000 50,000 25,000 (25,000) -50.00%

Subtotal, loan subsidies 114,193,528 98,173,183 12,348,075 (85,825,108) -87.42%

Subtotal, new loan subsidies and net reestimate/modification (non-add) 109,699,910 92,457,962 8,628,771 (83,829,191) -90.67%

Total 114,193,528 98,173,183 12,348,075 (85,825,108) -87.42%

Discretionary1 D 50,000 50,000 25,000 (25,000) -50.00%

Mandatory M 114,143,528 98,123,183 12,323,075 (85,800,108) -87.44%

 1. Upward reestimate of existing loans M 13,150,795 3,780,632 0 (3,780,632) -100.00%

 2. Downward reestimate of existing loans (non-add) M (6,865,204) (588,521) 0 588,521 -100.00%

 3. Net reestimate of existing loans (non-add) M 6,285,591 3,192,111 0 (3,192,111) -100.00%

 4. Upward modification of existing loans M 3,448,659 2,804,249 0 (2,804,249) -100.00%

 5. Downward modification of existing loans (non-add) M (67) 0 0 0 ---

 6. Net modification of existing loans (non-add) M 3,448,592 2,804,249 0 (2,804,249) -100.00%

M 16,599,454 6,584,881 0 (6,584,881) -100.00%

Total, new loan subsidies and net reestimate (non-add) 9,734,183 5,996,360 0 (5,996,360) -100.00%

1. M (186,060) (146,836) (146,838) (2) 0.00%

M (5,029) (5,029) (5,029) 0 0.00%

1 These amounts support the temporary expansion of the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (TEPSLF) program and are treated as a change in mandatory program (CHIMP) for budget scoring purposes. 

Federal Direct Student Loans Program Account (HEA IV-D) 

Health Education Assistance Loans Liquidating Account 

Federal Family Education Loans Liquidating Account (HEA IV-B)

Pre-1992 student loans 

Federal Family Education Loans Program Account (HEA IV-B) 

Total, FFEL Program Account

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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION FISCAL YEAR 2022 PRESIDENT'S BUDGET REQUEST

(in thousands of dollars)

 5/28/2021

Amount Percent

2020 

Appropriation

2022 President's Budget Compared to 

2021 2021 Appropriation

Appropriation

2022 President's 

Budget

Cat 

Code

1. M 0 0 14,312,447 14,312,447 ---

2. M 0 0 4,640,778 4,640,778 ---

M 0 0 18,953,225 18,953,225 ---

1. Aid for institutional development:

(a) Strengthening institutions (HEA III-A, section 311) D 107,854 109,007 209,007 100,000 91.74%

(b) Strengthening tribally controlled colleges and universities (HEA III-A, section 316) D 36,633 38,080 53,080 15,000 39.39%

(c) Mandatory strengthening tribally controlled colleges and universities 

(HEA III-F, section 371) M 28,230 28,290 87,290 59,000 208.55%

Subtotal 64,863 66,370 140,370 74,000 111.50%

(d) Strengthening Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian-serving institutions (HEA III-A,

section 317) D 18,320 19,044 25,044 6,000 31.51%

(e) Mandatory strengthening Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian-serving 

institutions (HEA III-F, section 371) M 14,115 14,145 43,145 29,000 205.02%

Subtotal 32,435 33,189 68,189 35,000 105.46%

(f) Strengthening HBCUs (HEA III-B, section 323) D 324,792 337,619 402,619 65,000 19.25%

(g) Mandatory strengthening HBCUs (HEA III-F, section 371) M 79,985 80,155 247,155 167,000 208.35%

Subtotal 404,777 417,774 649,774 232,000 55.53%

Higher Education

Free Community College

Free Community College (proposed legislation)

Institutional Aid to Improve Affordability (proposed legislation)

Total

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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION FISCAL YEAR 2022 PRESIDENT'S BUDGET REQUEST

(in thousands of dollars)

 5/28/2021

Amount Percent

2020 

Appropriation

2022 President's Budget Compared to 

2021 2021 Appropriation

Appropriation

2022 President's 

Budget

Cat 

Code

(h) Strengthening historically Black graduate institutions (HEA III-B, section 326) D 83,995 87,313 102,313 15,000 17.18%

(i) Strengthening HBCU masters program (HEA Title VII, section 723) D 9,956 10,956 20,956 10,000 91.27%

(j) Strengthening predominantly Black institutions (HEA III-A, section 318) D 13,197 14,218 23,218 9,000 63.30%

(k) Mandatory strengthening predominantly Black institutions (HEA III-F, section 371) M 14,115 14,145 43,145 29,000 205.02%

Subtotal 27,312 28,363 66,363 38,000 133.98%

(l) Strengthening Asian American- and Native American Pacific Islander-serving 

institutions (HEA III-A, section 320) D 4,444 5,120 20,120 15,000 292.97%

(m) Mandatory strengthening Asian American- and Native American Pacific 

Islander-serving institutions (HEA III-F, section 371) M 4,705 4,715 14,715 10,000 212.09%

Subtotal 9,149 9,835 34,835 25,000 254.19%

(n) Strengthening Native American-serving nontribal institutions (HEA III-A, section 319) D 4,444 5,120 12,120 7,000 136.72%

(o) Mandatory strengthening Native American-serving nontribal institutions (HEA III-F, section 371) M 4,705 4,715 14,715 10,000 212.09%

Subtotal 9,149 9,835 26,835 17,000 172.85%

(p) Minority science and engineering improvement (HEA III-E-1) D 12,635 13,370 18,370 5,000 37.40%

Subtotal, Aid for institutional development 762,125 786,012 1,337,012 551,000 70.10%

Discretionary D 616,270 639,847 886,847 247,000 38.60%

Mandatory M 145,855 146,165 450,165 304,000 207.98%

Higher Education (continued)

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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION FISCAL YEAR 2022 PRESIDENT'S BUDGET REQUEST

(in thousands of dollars)

 5/28/2021

Amount Percent

2020 

Appropriation

2022 President's Budget Compared to 

2021 2021 Appropriation

Appropriation

2022 President's 

Budget

Cat 

Code

2. Aid for Hispanic-serving institutions:

(a) Developing Hispanic-serving institutions (HEA V-A) D 143,081 148,732 236,732 88,000 59.17%

(b) Mandatory developing HSI STEM and articulation programs (HEA III-F, section 371(b)(2)(B)) M 94,100 94,300 290,300 196,000 207.85%

(c) Promoting postbaccalaureate opportunities for Hispanic Americans (HEA V, section 512) D 12,838 13,845 28,845 15,000 108.34%

Subtotal 250,019 256,877 555,877 299,000 116.40%

Discretionary 155,919 162,577 265,577 103,000 63.35%

Mandatory 94,100 94,300 290,300 196,000 207.85%

 3. Other aid for institutions:

(a) International education and foreign language studies:

(1) Domestic programs (HEA VI-A and B) D 68,103 69,353 69,353 0 0.00%

(2) Overseas programs (MECEA section 102(b)(6)) D 8,061 8,811 8,811 0 0.00%

Subtotal 76,164 78,164 78,164 0 0.00%

(c) Model transition programs for students with intellectual disabilities into

higher education (HEA VII-D-2) D 11,800 13,800 15,180 1,380 10.00%

(d) Tribally controlled postsecondary career and technical institutions (CTEA section 117) D 10,000 10,634 10,634 0 0.00%

 4. Assistance for students:

(a) Federal TRIO programs (HEA IV-A-2, Chapter 1) D 1,090,000 1,097,000 1,297,761 200,761 18.30%

(b) Gaining early awareness and readiness for undergraduate programs

(GEAR UP) (HEA IV-A-2, Chapter 2) D 365,000 368,000 408,000 40,000 10.87%

(c) Graduate assistance in areas of national need (HEA VII-A-2) D 23,047 23,547 23,547 0 0.00%

(d) Child care access means parents in school (HEA IV-A-7) D 53,000 55,000 95,000 40,000 72.73%

Higher Education (continued)

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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION FISCAL YEAR 2022 PRESIDENT'S BUDGET REQUEST

(in thousands of dollars)

 5/28/2021

Amount Percent

2020 

Appropriation

2022 President's Budget Compared to 

2021 2021 Appropriation

Appropriation

2022 President's 

Budget

Cat 

Code

 5. Fund for the improvement of post secondary education (FIPSE) (HEA VII-B) D 24,500 41,000 76,000 35,000 85.37%

 6. Teacher quality partnership (HEA II-A) D 50,092 52,092 132,092 80,000 153.57%

 7. Teacher quality partnership (HEA II-A) M 0 0 280,000 280,000 ---

 8. Hawkins Centers of Excellence (HEA II-B-2) D 0 0 20,000 20,000 ---

 9. Hawkins Centers of Excellence (HEA II-B-2) M 0 0 40,000 40,000 ---

 10. Health professionals of the future (proposed legislation) M 0 0 200,000 200,000 ---

 11. Completion Grants (proposed legislation) M 0 0 6,200,000 6,200,000 ---

2,715,747 2,782,126 10,769,267 7,987,141 287.09%

Discretionary D 2,475,792 2,541,661 3,308,802 767,141 30.18%

Mandatory M 239,955 240,465 7,460,465 7,220,000 3002.52%

1. General support (20 U.S.C. 121 et seq.) D 212,693 216,693 226,693 10,000 4.61%

2. Howard University Hospital (20 U.S.C. 128) D 27,325 34,325 34,325 0 0.00%

D 240,018 251,018 261,018 10,000 3.98%

1. Federal administration (FCRA section 505(e)) D 435 435 435 0 0.00%

2. Reestimate of existing loan subsidies M (38) 145 0 (145) -100.00%

397 580 435 (145) -25.00%

Discretionary D 435 435 435 0 0.00%

Mandatory M (38) 145 0 (145) -100.00%

Howard University

Total

College Housing and Academic Facilities Loans Program Account (HEA section 121)

Total

Total

Higher Education (continued)

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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION FISCAL YEAR 2022 PRESIDENT'S BUDGET REQUEST

(in thousands of dollars)

 5/28/2021

Amount Percent

2020 

Appropriation

2022 President's Budget Compared to 

2021 2021 Appropriation

Appropriation

2022 President's 

Budget

Cat 

Code

M (3,015) (3,015) (3,015) 0 0.00%

1. Federal administration (FCRA section 505(e)) D 334 334 334 0 0.00%

2. Loan subsidies D 20,150 22,150 20,150 (2,000) -9.03%

3. Modification of existing loan subsidies--Public and Private Deferments D 26,000 26,000 0 (26,000) -100.00%

 4. Modification of existing loan subsidies--Loan Forgiveness M 0 1,695,000 0 (1,695,000) -100.00%

 5. Reestimate of existing loan subsidies M (41,708) 17,914 0 (17,914) -100.00%

4,776 1,761,398 20,484 (1,740,914) -98.84%

Discretionary D 46,484 48,484 20,484 (28,000) -57.75%

Mandatory M (41,708) 1,712,914 0 (1,712,914) -100.00%

M (585) (585) (585) 0 0.00%

College Housing Loans Liquidating Account (HEA section 121) M (1,760) (1,760) (1,760) 0 0.00%

Higher Education Facilities Loans Liquidating Account (HEA section 121)

Total

Historically Black College and University Capital Financing Program Account (HEA III-D)

College Housing and Academic Facilities Loans Liquidating Account (HEA section 121)

81
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION FISCAL YEAR 2022 PRESIDENT'S BUDGET REQUEST

(in thousands of dollars)

 5/28/2021

Amount Percent

2020 

Appropriation

2022 President's Budget Compared to 

2021 2021 Appropriation

Appropriation

2022 President's 

Budget

Cat 

Code

1. Research and statistics:

(a) Research, development, and dissemination (ESRA I-A, B and D, except section 174) D 195,877 197,877 267,880 70,003 35.38%

(b) Statistics (ESRA I-C) D 110,500 111,500 111,500 0 0.00%

2. Regional educational laboratories (ESRA section 174) D 56,022 57,022 57,022 0 0.00%

3. Assessment (NAEPAA):

(a) National assessment (section 303) D 153,000 165,000 180,000 15,000 9.09%

(b) National Assessment Governing Board (section 302) D 7,745 7,745 7,745 0 0.00%

Subtotal 160,745 172,745 187,745 15,000 8.68%

4. Research in special education (ESRA, Part E) D 56,500 58,500 58,500 0 0.00%

5. Statewide longitudinal data systems (ETAA section 208) D 33,000 33,500 33,500 0 0.00%

6. Special education studies and evaluations (IDEA, section 664) D 10,818 11,318 21,318 10,000 88.35%

D 623,462 642,462 737,465 95,003 14.79%

1. Salaries and expenses D 430,000 430,000 467,000 37,000 8.60%

 2. Building Modernization D 0 0 13,000 13,000 ---

430,000 430,000 480,000 50,000 11.63%

 1. Salaries and expenses D 878,943 981,954 1,133,354 151,400 15.42%

 2. Servicing activities D 890,000 871,989 920,589 48,600 5.57%

1,768,943 1,853,943 2,053,943 200,000 10.79%

Institute of Education Sciences

Total

Total

Total 

Program Administration (DEOA)

Student Aid Administration (HEA I-D and IV-D, section 458)

82
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION FISCAL YEAR 2022 PRESIDENT'S BUDGET REQUEST

(in thousands of dollars)

 5/28/2021

Amount Percent

2020 

Appropriation

2022 President's Budget Compared to 

2021 2021 Appropriation

Appropriation

2022 President's 

Budget

Cat 

Code

D 130,000 131,000 144,000 13,000 9.92%

D 63,000 63,000 70,115 7,115 11.29%

M 0 0 0 0 ---

 1. Perkins loan repayments M (1,316,750) (884,601) (842,908) 41,693 -4.71%

 2. FDSL downward reestimate of loan subsidies M (1,436,592) (838,915) 0 838,915 -100.00%

 3. FFEL downward reestimate of loan subsidies M (6,865,204) (588,521) 0 588,521 -100.00%

 4. FDSL downward modification/negative loan subsidies M (3,945,692) (4,028,256) (3,879,363) 148,893 -3.70%

 5. HBCU capital financing downward reestimate of loan subsidies M (47,666) (206,773) 0 206,773 -100.00%

 6. FFEL downward modification/negative loan subsidies M (197) 0 0 0 ---

 7. HEAL downward reestimate of loan subsidies M 0 (25,368) 0 25,368 -100.00%

 8. TEACH downward reestimate of loan subsidies M (36,231) (3,225) 0 3,225 -100.00%

Total (13,648,332) (6,575,659) (4,722,271) 1,853,388 -28.19%

 1. Student Financial Assistance debt collection M 6,000 4,000 9,000 5,000 125.00%

D 72,751,214 73,536,533 102,823,263 29,286,730 39.83%

D 72,251,214 73,036,533 102,823,263 29,786,730 40.78%

Contributions (DEOA, section 421)

Office of Inspector General (DEOA, section 211)

Office for Civil Rights (DEOA, section 203)

General Fund Receipts

DISCRETIONARY APPROPRIATION 

DISCRETIONARY APPROPRIATION, less rescissions 

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