The New America Foundation is pleased to announce a new online resource for
journalists covering education, student loans,
education-related tax policy, and the federal budget in
general. The Federal Education Budget Project (FEBP)
is an independent, authoritative source of easily accessible information on the size, distribution, effectiveness, and
efficiency of federal education funding. To access the website, please
visit www.EdBudgetProject.org.
How it Works: EdBudgetProject.Org
Our website
provides downloadable funding, demographic, and achievement data at the state
and district level for all 50 states and over 14,000 public school districts in
the nation. Additionally, it includes basic information
and analyses on different aspects of the federal
education budget, such as No Child Left Behind's Title I program, student
financial aid, IDEA special education, and the National School Lunch
Program. Journalists can use our resources and data to:
- Determine how much money each state and school district spends
on education.
- See rankings of
states by spending, achievement, school finance equity, and child poverty.
- Learn how much
federal education funding a
particular local school district receives.
- Compare state and
school district funding and achievement with similar
states and districts locally or nationwide.
- Download state and
district data to carry out your own original
research and analysis.
- Learn about the
federal budget process and how the federal education budget affects states
and school districts.
- Follow
breaking education funding news, analysis, and commentary on the EdMoneyWatch.Org
blog.
New America will
unveil the Federal Education Budget Project at a June 12th event featuring a panel of
federal budget experts who will discuss the outlook for federal education
funding in 2008 and under the next Congress and administration. Speakers
include:
- Bob Greenstein, Founder and President -
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities;
- Ellen Murray, Staff Director - U. S.
Senate Subcommittee on Labor, HHS, and Education Appropriations;
- David Rowe, Director, Education Division
- Office of Management and Budget;
- Tom Skelly, Director, Budget Service -
United States Department of Education; and
- Michael Dannenberg, Director, Education Policy
Program - New America
Foundation.
To get in touch with our
staff, please contact: Erin Drankoski, 202-997-8727, Drankoski@newamerica.net.
The event starts at 11:15 a.m. and ends at 12:45 p.m.
approximately. New America Foundation's address:
1630 Connecticut Ave, NW,
Washington, DC
20009. To RSVP for the event, please go to our website:http://www.newamerica.net/events/2008/budgeting_future_children.
The Federal Education Budget Project is supported by
generous grants from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the William and
Flora Hewlett Foundation, and other charitable foundations.
About
the New America Foundation: The New America Foundation is an independent, nonprofit
public policy institute whose purpose is to bring exceptionally promising new
voices and new ideas to the fore of our nation's public discourse. Relying on a
venture capital approach, the Foundation invests in outstanding individuals and
policy solutions that transcend the conventional political spectrum. New America is headquartered in Washington,
D.C., and also has offices in California.
