The Department of Education will receive a nearly $3 billion increase over the last fiscal year in the Omnibus Appropriations Bill passed by Congress and signed by the president last month. While this is far short of the president’s request, it represents significant progress. Most K-12 programs will see only incremental increases and not the massive change that the president had requested and that the House of Representatives had supported originally. Title IIA, the primary source of federal funding for professional learning, received a $27 million increase in the final measure — significantly less than the $150 million increase proposed in the initial House of Representatives bill. The majority of the new education money will go toward Title I, which saw a $1 billion increase, and