FY 2023 PRESIDENT’S BUDGET

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

MARCH 28, 2022
President Biden’s Budget Request for FY 2023:

• Builds on historic FY22 investment by proposing $88.3 billion in new discretionary Budget 

Authority, a $15.3 billion or 21 percent increase above the fiscal year 2021 appropriation. No programs 

were eliminated or consolidated.

• Makes significant new investments to support the whole child – meeting the social, emotional, mental

health, and academic needs of millions of students in schools and colleges across America, especially for

students of color and students from low-income backgrounds.

• Increases support for children with disabilities and multilingual learners, including investments to 

help children and youth with disabilities thrive in school and to improve teaching and learning for 

multilingual learners.

• Invests in educator recruitment, retention, and professional learning, improving resources and support 

for America's teachers and school leaders to expand their impact within and beyond their classrooms.

• Reimagines the High School to Postsecondary transition, improving integration and alignment of the 

last two years of high school and the first two years of postsecondary education to improve postsecondary 

and career outcomes for all students.

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FY 2017 – FY 2023 Department of Education Discretionary Budget

Requested vs. Enacted Levels

FY 2017 FY 2018 FY 2019 FY 2020 FY 2021 FY 2022 FY 2023

President's Request 69.4 62.9 63.2 64.0 66.6 102.8 88.3

Final Enacted 68.2 70.9 71.1 72.7 73.5 76.4

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120.0

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$ in Billions

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Note: the FY 2023 budget also includes $16 billion for Title I on the mandatory side of the budget. 
Timing Interaction of FY 2022 Congressional Appropriations with the 

FY 2023 President’s Budget Request

• The Administration’s FY 2023 Budget Requests used a FY 2022 full-year 

Continuing Resolution level, based on FY 2021 enacted levels, as a base.

• As a result, when comparing FY 2022 enacted with ED’s FY 2023 request, there 

are some “artificial” program cuts:

 34 programs

 ~$287 million

 FY 2022 enacted also included ~$392 million in Congressionally directed spending that is not 

included in our FY 2023 request

• The Administration supports fully funding and building on the many increases to 

Department of Education funding in FY 2022 and looks forward to working with 

Congress on FY 2023 appropriations action.

• In total, we are requesting a $13 billion increase in discretionary Budget 

Authority over the FY 2022 enacted level.

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Five Core Themes for the FY 2023 Budget Request:

• Supporting Students Through Pandemic Response and Recovery

• Boldly Addressing Opportunity and Achievement Gaps

• Supporting a Talented and Diverse Educator Workforce

• Making Higher Education Inclusive and Affordable

• Building Pathways Through Higher Education that Lead to Successful Careers

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Supporting Students Through Pandemic Response and Recovery 

• $1 billion to double the number of school counselors, nurses, and mental 

health professionals in K-12 schools, especially in the most underserved schools.

• $468 million to dramatically expand the Full-Service Community Schools 

(FSCS) 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.

• $25 million within the FSCS program for the provision of integrated student 

supports, to establish competitive grants and technical assistance for schools to 

build sustainable partnerships, cross-agency efforts, and connections with

community-based organizations and other family support providers.

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Boldly Addressing Opportunity and Achievement Gaps

Title I

• A $20 billion increase to Title I ($4 billion in discretionary BA and $16 billion 

in mandatory BA), bringing total investment to $36.5 billion for public 

elementary and secondary schools in America's most underserved communities.

• This increase is a down payment on President Biden’s commitment to triple 

funding for Title I students, teachers, and schools—to help address longstanding funding disparities between under-resourced school districts and their 

wealthier counterparts.

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Boldly Addressing Opportunity and Achievement Gaps

Significant Boost in Support for Children with Disabilities

• $18.1 billion for special education programs, with $16.3 billion for IDEA, a 

$3.3 billion increase over the 2021 enacted level and the largest increase to 

the program in two decades.

Support for Multilingual Learners

• $1.1 billion for English Language Acquisition grants, a $278 million 

increase over the 2021 enacted level, to significantly strengthen State and 

local capacity to meet the needs of English learners.

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Boldly Addressing Opportunity and Achievement Gaps

• $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, and $149 million, an increase of $40 million 

over the 2021 enacted level, to support the Magnet Schools Assistance 

Program.

• $161 million for ED’s Office for Civil Rights, a $30 million increase compared 

to the 2021 enacted level, to provide sufficient staffing capacity for monitoring, 

technical assistance, data collection, and enforcement.

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Supporting a Talented and Diverse Educator Workforce 

• $132 million for Teacher Quality Partnership grants to effectively prepare aspiring teachers by 

supporting comprehensive pathways into the profession, such as High-Quality Teacher 

Residencies and Grow Your Own programs, that improve educator diversity, effectiveness, and 

retention.

• $20 million for Augustus Hawkins Centers of Excellence to support teacher preparation 

programs at HBCUs, TCCUs, and MSIs.

• $250 million for IDEA, Part D, to support the pipeline of special education teachers and 

personnel.

• An additional $320 million for the Education Innovation and Research program, to identify 

and scale models that improve recruitment and retention, including improving resources and 

support for educators, and provide teacher access to leadership opportunities that improve teacher 

retention and expand the impact of great teachers within and beyond their classrooms.

• $40 million to recruit and train school leaders.

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Making Higher Education More Inclusive and Affordable

Pell Grants

• Increases the maximum Pell Grant by $2,175 over the 2021-2022 award year to 

$8,670 for award year 2023-2024, through a combination of discretionary and 

mandatory funding, to provide additional federal grant assistance for low-and middleincome college students. This budget provides a blueprint to double the maximum Pell 

Grant by 2029. The Administration intends to work with Congress to ensure inclusion of 

students who are DACA recipients into Federal student aid programs.

Child Care Access For Parenting Students

• $95 million to institutions providing affordable child care for low-income student 

parents, a $40 million increase to Child Care Access Means Parents in School 

(CCAMPIS) over the 2021 enacted level.

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Making Higher Education More Inclusive and Affordable

Increased financial support to Minority Serving Institutions

• $282 million increase above 2021 enacted levels to enhance 

institutional capacity at HBCUs, TCCUs, MSIs, and underresourced institutions.

Investing in Research and Development

• $450 million in new, transformative investments in the research 

capacity of HBCUs, MSIs, and TCCUs to expand the research 

capacity of institutions that have historically been 

underrepresented in the R&D enterprise.

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Making Higher Education More Inclusive and Affordable

Historic investments in Student Aid Administration

• $800 million increase over the 2021 enacted level to Federal 

Student Aid prioritize the needs of student loan borrowers by 

implementing improved customer service and accountability 

measures to student loan servicing, while ensuring the successful 

transition from the current short-term loan servicing contracts to 

a more stable long-term contract and servicing environment.

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Building Pathways Through Higher Education That Lead to 

Successful Careers

Career-Connected High Schools

• $200 million for a new Career-Connected High Schools Initiative within 

Career and Technical Education National Programs, to support competitive grants 

to partnerships of local educational agencies, institutions of higher education 

(including community colleges), and employers to support early enrollment in 

postsecondary and career-connected coursework; work-based learning 

opportunities; and academic and career-connected instruction across the last two 

years of high school and the first two years of postsecondary education.

College Bridge Initiative

• Investments in Adult Education National Leadership Activities to scale up 

college bridge programs for low-skilled adults without a high school degree or 

equivalency.

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Building Pathways Through Higher Education That Lead to 

Successful Careers

TRIO and GEAR UP 

• Significant increases in Federal TRIO programs and GEAR UP, $200 

million and $40 million increases from 2021 enacted levels, respectively, to 

expand services that promote access and completion in higher education for 

underserved individuals.

FIPSE Retention and Completion Grant 

• $110 million to support competitive grants to States and systems of 

institutions of higher education to implement or expand evidence-based, 

statewide, and institutional level retention and completion reforms that 

improve student outcomes.

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