BUSH BUDGET PLAN CUTS HBCU FUNDING:
2009 proposal would remove $85 million in money for black colleges*
President Bush’s 2009 education budget proposal would slash $85 million in funds earmarked for historically black colleges and universities, reports Amanda Lehmert of North Carolina-based news-record.com. The budget proposal essentially cancels an increase for those schools provided by the 2007 College Cost Reduction Act in September. That was the first increase in funding the Department of Education’s Strengthening Historically Black Colleges and Universities program has received since 2005.




























