 CHAPTER 70--STRENGTHENING AND IMPROVEMENT OF ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY 
                                 SCHOOLS
 
                   SUBCHAPTER XIV--GENERAL PROVISIONS
 
                        Part H--Sense of Congress
 
Sec. 8961. Sense of Congress to increase total share of Federal 
        spending on education
        

(a) Findings

    The Congress finds that--
        (1) in order to increase our Nation's standard of living and to 
    increase the number of good jobs, the United States must increase 
    its productivity and ability to compete in the international 
    marketplace by improving the educational level of our workforce;
        (2) although efforts are being made to establish higher 
    educational standards and goals, there is a substantial shortage of 
    resources to meet such standards and goals;
        (3) States and local communities are finding it increasingly 
    difficult to meet ever higher educational standards and goals, and 
    States will not be able to fund needed changes without Federal help 
    to reach such standards and goals;
        (4) the Federal Government has established many educational 
    programs but failed to provide adequate funding for such programs, 
    for example one such program provides education to our Nation's 
    disabled students and was established with a promise of 40 percent 
    Federal funding but currently receives only eight percent Federal 
    funding;
        (5) the annual shortfall in Federal education programs is 
    approximately half of the promised funding;
        (6) many needed educational improvements will not need Federal 
    funds, however, other suggested changes such as lengthened school 
    years, better pay, after-school activities, mentoring for students 
    at risk, programs for gifted students, and replacing substandard 
    buildings, will require substantial Federal assistance; and
        (7) the Federal contribution to education is less than two 
    percent of the total Federal budget, and in order to make education 
    a national priority, the total percentage of Federal educational 
    funding should be increased by one percent each year over the next 
    eight years to reach 10 percent of the total Federal budget.

(b) Sense of Congress

    It is the sense of the Congress that the total share of the Federal 
spending on education should increase by at least one percent each year 
until such share reaches 10 percent of the total Federal budget.

(Pub. L. 89-10, title XIV, Sec. 14801, as added Pub. L. 103-382, title 
I, Sec. 101, Oct. 20, 1994, 108 Stat. 3911.)
