What percentage of the federal budget is spent on K-12 education?

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Request for Question Clarification by rainbow-ga on 18 May 2006 07:48 PDT

Please let me know if this sufficiently answers your question:

Source: http://coe.k-state.edu/cress/

-The Bush budget disproportionately eliminates K-12 education programs.- 
"President Bush eliminates 42 programs totaling $3.5 billion from the
Department of Education. The 42 programs are a disproportionate share
of the 154 proposed program eliminations in the entire federal budget.
Yet, funding for education only represents 2.5 percent of the federal
budget."
You can view the eliminated programs through the following link:
http://www.ed.gov/about/overview/budget/budget07/summary/edlite-section3.html.


More can be read here:
http://www.ed.gov/about/overview/fed/10facts/10facts.pdf

http://www.house.gov/ed_workforce/press/press108/02feb/educationbudget020303.htm


Looking forward to your clarification.

Best regards,
Rainbow