FY 2024 PRESIDENT’S BUDGET

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

MARCH 9, 2023
President Biden’s Budget Request for FY 2024:

• Continues to make significant investments to raise the bar in public education, working to address

longstanding inequities that students and educators confront every day in under-resourced schools and 

institutions of higher education by proposing $90.0 billion in new discretionary Budget Authority, a 

$10.8 billion or 13.6 percent increase from the fiscal year 2023 enacted level (less rescissions). No 

programs were eliminated or consolidated.

• Makes significant new investments to meet the academic, mental health, and other needs of our 

students across schools and institutions, including critical new funding for postsecondary mental health 

supports and increasing aid for schools in high-poverty communities.

• Increases support for children with disabilities and English Learners, including investments to 

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

Learners, and to address educator shortages particularly impacting these students.

• 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.

• Invests in postsecondary success for all students, improving affordability, retention, and completion, 

including through free community college and increased student supports.

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FY 2017 – FY 2024 Department of Education Discretionary Budget

Requested vs. Enacted Levels

FY 2017 FY 2018 FY 2019 FY 2020 FY 2021 FY 2022 FY 2023 FY 2024

President's Request 69.4 62.9 63.2 64.0 66.6 102.8 88.3 90.0

Final Enacted 68.2 70.9 71.1 72.7 73.5 76.4 79.2

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40.0

60.0

80.0

100.0

120.0

$ in Billions

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Core Themes for the FY 2024 Budget Request:

• Achieve Academic Excellence: Accelerate Learning and Deliver a 

Comprehensive and Rigorous Education for Every Student

• Boldly Improve Learning Conditions: Eliminate the Educator 

Shortage and Support Student Mental Health and Well-Being in Every 

School

• Create Pathways for Global Engagement: Provide Every Student 

with a Pathway to Multilingualism and Ensure Every Student Has a 

Pathway to College and a Career

• Make Postsecondary Education Inclusive and Affordable

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Title I

• Budget provides $20.5 billion for Title I, a $2.2 billion increase above the fiscal 

year 2023 enacted level. Title I delivers critical funding to 90 percent of school 

districts across the Nation, helping them to provide students in low-income 

communities the academic opportunities and support they need to succeed.

• Funding will continue historic progress over the past two years, as Congress has 

enacted a total increase of $1.9 billion for Title I since fiscal year 2021.

• Includes new funding for schools to support effective teaching and learning by 

designing and adopting formative and diagnostic assessments to spur instructional 

improvement.

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Achieve Academic Excellence: Accelerate Learning and Deliver a 

Comprehensive and Rigorous Education for Every Student
Preschool Incentive Demonstration Program

• Budget provides $500 million for a new Preschool Incentive Demonstration program 

that would make competitive awards to local education agencies (LEAs) or consortia of 

LEAs to expand access to high-quality preschool in school and community-based settings, 

including Head Start, for children eligible to attend Title I schools.

Significant Boost in Support for Children with Disabilities

• Budget provides $18.2 billion for special education programs, with $16.3 billion for 

IDEA, Part B, a $2.7 billion increase over the fiscal year 2023 enacted level.

• Budget includes $932 million for the Grants for Infants and Families program, nearly 

$400 million more than the fiscal year 2023 enacted level.

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Achieve Academic Excellence: Accelerate Learning and Deliver a 

Comprehensive and Rigorous Education for Every Student
• Budget provides $578 million toward President Biden’s goal of doubling the number 

of certified school-based counselors, psychologists, social workers, and other mental 

health professionals. This funding is in addition to the $1 billion the Bipartisan Safer 

Communities Act (BSCA) provided to address mental health staffing shortages in schools.

• Budget provides $368 million to more than double funding for 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.

• Budget provides an additional $121 million for the Education Innovation and 

Research program, to combat the well-documented effects of the COVID-19 pandemic 

and target a priority for projects to improve outcomes for children and youth in foster care.

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Boldly Improve Learning Conditions: Eliminate the Educator Shortage and Support 

Student Mental Health and Well-Being in Every School 
Boldly Improve Learning Conditions: Eliminate the Educator Shortage and Support 

Student Mental Health and Well-Being in Every School 

• Budget invests $3 billion in educator preparation, development, and leadership, an 

increase of $342 million over fiscal year 2023 enacted levels.

• Budget provides $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.

• Budget provides $30 million for Augustus Hawkins Centers of Excellence to support 

teacher preparation programs at HBCUs, TCCUs, and MSIs.

• Budget provides $200 million in Teacher and School Leader Incentive Grants to support 

school-based models of distributed leadership.

• Budget provides $303 million to address shortages of special education teachers.

• Budget provides $40 million to recruit and train school leaders.

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Create Pathways for Global Engagement: Provide Every Student with a Pathway to 

Multilingualism and Ensure Every Student Has a Pathway to College and a Career

• Budget provides $1.2 billion for English Language Acquisition grants, a $305 

million increase over the fiscal year 2023 enacted level, to strengthen State and 

local capacity to meet the needs of English Learners and their teachers, provide for 

professional development on multilingual education for existing teachers and staff, 

and bolster the multilingual educator pipeline via post-secondary fellowships.

• Elevates the multilingual teaching workforce, by providing $90 million to build 

multilingual teacher pipelines and provide professional development in 

multilingual education, and $10 million for post-secondary fellowships to 

improve the quality of multilingual educator preparation.

• Budget provides $25 million for grants to States and LEAs to improve and expand 

instruction in world languages.

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Budget provides $1.47 billion for the Career and Technical Education (CTE) State 

Grants program, an increase of $43 million over the fiscal year 2023 enacted level, 

to support the President’s goal to expand and build new models for workforce 

development starting in middle and high school.

Budget provides $200 million for a Career-Connected High Schools Initiative

within Career and Technical Education National Programs, that awards competitive 

grants to partnerships of local educational agencies, institutions of higher education 

(including community colleges), and employers supporting:

▫ 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.

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Create Pathways for Global Engagement: Provide Every Student with a Pathway to 

Multilingualism and Ensure Every Student Has a Pathway to College and a Career
Make Postsecondary Education Inclusive and Affordable

Pell Grants

• Increases the maximum Pell Grant by $820 over the 2023-2024 award year 

to provide additional federal grant assistance for low-and middle- income college 

students.

• Increases maximum award to $8,215 for award year 2024-2025, 

through a combination of discretionary and mandatory funding.

• 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.

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Increases Equitable Funding for HBCUs, TCCUs, and MSIs

• Budget enhances institutional capacity at HBCUs, TCCUs, MSIs, and 

low-resourced institutions, including community colleges, by 

providing an increase of $429 million over the fiscal year 2023 enacted 

level.

• Budget includes a $350 million initiative in the FIPSE program to 

expand research and development infrastructure at four-year HBCUs, 

TCCUs, and MSIs.

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Make Postsecondary Education Inclusive and Affordable
TRIO and GEAR UP

• Increases in Federal TRIO programs and GEAR UP, $107 million and 

$20 million from fiscal year 2023 enacted levels, respectively, to expand 

services that promote access and completion in postsecondary education 

for underserved individuals.

Child Care Access For Parenting Students

• Budget provides $95 million to institutions providing affordable child 

care for low-income student parents, a $20 million increase to Child 

Care Access Means Parents in School (CCAMPIS) over the fiscal year 

2023 enacted level.

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Make Postsecondary Education Inclusive and Affordable
Critical investments in student success and supports:

• $165 million for the Postsecondary Student Success Grant program, which 

provides competitive grants to States, TCCUs, IHEs, and systems of IHEs to implement or 

expand evidence-based, data-driven completion and success strategies that improve student 

outcomes.

• $150 million for a new School- and Campus-Based Mental Health Service program 

that provides competitive grants to IHEs to develop a campus-wide strategy that addresses 

the mental health needs of students.

• $30 million to support the new System-wide Holistic Student Supports program that 

awards grants to State agencies, systems of IHEs, or other large consortia of IHEs to 

improve the systems and structures necessary to simplify and expand student access to 

federal and local benefits beyond financial aid.

• $30 million to support the new Postsecondary Advancement and Success Technical 

Assistance Center to improve access to equitable college inclusion, completion and 

retention opportunities.

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Make Postsecondary Education Inclusive and Affordable
• Budget includes a mandatory proposal to establish partnerships between the 

federal government and States, territories, and Tribes to make two years of 

community college free for first-time students and workers wanting to reskill.

• Budget includes a mandatory proposal to provide subsidized tuition for 

eligible students at eligible four-year HBCUs, TCCUs, and MSIs.

• Budget proposes a new discretionary Accelerated Success: Free Community 

College program that awards grants to community colleges (alone or in 

consortia), or State systems of community colleges, to provide up to two years of 

free postsecondary education for students enrolled in high-quality programs that 

lead to good-paying jobs, or that lead to four-year degrees.

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Make Postsecondary Education Inclusive and Affordable
Prioritizes the Needs of Students and Borrowers

• $620 million increase over the fiscal year 2023 enacted level for 

Student Aid Administration to support student loan borrowers. 

This funding enables the Department’s Federal Student Aid office to 

continue operating student aid programs, implement critical 

improvements to student loan servicing, continue modernizing its 

digital infrastructure, and ensure successful administration of the 

financial aid programs through a simplified and streamlined 

application process for students and borrowers.

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Make Postsecondary Education Inclusive and Affordable
• $177.6 million for ED’s Office for Civil Rights, a $37.6 million increase 

compared to the 2023 enacted level, to increase staffing capacity for 

monitoring, technical assistance, data collection, and enforcement.

• $870 million for the Institute of Education Sciences, a $63 million 

increase, to conduct, provide and share research and scientific evidence in 

education, including expanding research and development to support cuttingedge practices in teaching and learning, and to collect data on the real-time 

impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on K-12 education.

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Supporting All Students
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