«While total state spending has been held to 2 percent annual growth and most state agency budgets have remained
flat, school aid has increased by 27 percent
over the last five years, proving that it's already a funding
priority,» Peters said.
A. Cho's story «Commitments, ideology clash
over research spending» (News Focus, 11 November 2011, p. 754) points out far - reaching
priority choices that may have to be made by the Office of Science in a
flat budget scenario that can not accommodate ongoing domestic projects as well as the increasing contribution to the $ 23 billion international fusion experiment, ITER, in France.