Washington Update Sue Fratkin Public Policy Consultant. Educause

Setting the Context n Bush Administration 1st Budget n Keeping Election Promises u Education - “Leave No Child Behind” u Tax Cut u Increase Federal Budget for all discretionary programs - 4%

Priorities n Major Investments in NIH & DOD u Double NIH budget - additional $2.8B - 14% increase u Major increase in DOD budget - increase of $14B - more pending n Technology - provide permanent tax credit for R&D n Education - additional $ 4.6B % increase

Non-Priorities n De-emphasis on science u No White House Science Advisor u Excluding NIH, Basic Research declines 1.0% F NSF bare increase of.1% F DOE decrease of 3.3% F Dept of Commerce decrease of 6.1% u Basic & Applied Research falls 1.5%, a loss of $357M

Realities n More money to the States n Eliminate redundancy, paperwork, regulations & provide flexibility n Networking and Information Technology R&D budget across Agencies to increase 2.1% to $1.969B (NSF,DOD, Energy, HHS,NASA, Commerce,EPA)

Agency Specifics n NSF u Advanced Networking Research F FY’02 request $80.2M; down $800,000 infrastructure, $300,000 research u ITR - in CISE Directorate F FY’02 request $155.48M - flat u EPSCoR F FY’02 request $100M - flat u New - Math & Science Partnerships F FY’02 request $200M (states &local School districts w/H.Ed) n

n Department of Education u No Technology Advisor u All 9 Tech programs collapsed into One Performance based Educational Technology State Grants program u Formula driven - targeting rural & high-poverty schools F FY’02 request 817.1M; down from $872.1M (inc. one time $55M) in FY’01 n

Challenge n To work with Congress and the Agencies developing guidelines to administer these programs n To focus on the budget planning that commences for FY 2003