January 26, 2001

FIPSE Budget Loads Up on Pork

By JEFFREY BRAINARD

For the third year in a row, Congress has approved a sharp increase in the number and value of pork-barrel projects financed through the Education Department's Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education, or FIPSE.

The small, highly regarded program focuses on providing competitively awarded grants for the study of innovative reforms in curricular development, graduate training, and other areas of higher education. But in a budget deal reached last

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