Sentences with phrase «overall education budget proposal»

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While Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos looked on, Cuomo said there is «flexibility» in his executive budget proposal (he has already signaled a willingness to restore health care and education aid, as long as the overall $ 132.9 billion number doesn't grow).

The governor has said he's open to legislative proposals to restore some of his proposed $ 1.5 billion education funding cuts, but only if that doesn't increase overall spending in the budget.

The U.S. Department of Education's overall budget would remain stagnant at $ 59.2 billion under a fiscal year 2009 proposal released by President Bush that includes a modest boost for Title I grants to school districts, the main funding vehicle for implementing the No Child Left Behind Act.

Under the president's budget proposal, released Feb. 6, overall discretionary spending for the Education Department would shrink by 5.5 percent, to $ 54.4 billion, compared with Congress» allocation of $ 57.5 billion for fiscal 2006.

Spokesman John Johnson said the budget proposal fixes a «broken» funding formula and «reinvests» in public schools, which have experienced cutbacks in overall state aid, and in special education funding, which has been frozen since 2006.