The $3.8-trillion budget President Obama proposed on Monday for the 2011 fiscal year contains increases for federal spending on education, including Pell Grants, and for research financed by the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation.
The increases were proposed despite a net spending freeze on discretionary domestic spending that Mr. Obama announced in his State of the Union address last week.
The president’s budget for the next fiscal year, which begins on October 1, would increase federal education spending by 6 percent in 2011 and raise the maximum Pell Grant to $5,710, from the current $5,550. He renewed a proposal he made a year ago to make the Pell Grant program a guaranteed entitlement for all low-income students. He also recommended that the maximum Pell Grant award automatically increase each year of the next decade by the rate of inflation plus one percentage point.
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