Democrats' report on state education budgets. (In Washington).

Democrats' report on state education budgets. (In Washington). Education in Crisis: The State Budget Crunch (1) To process data. See number crunching.(2) To compress data. See data compression. 1. (jargon) crunch - To process, usually in a time-consuming or complicated way. & OurNation's Schools was prepared by the Democratic staffs of the U.S.Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions and the U.S.House of Representatives Committee on Education and the Workforce.According to according toprep.1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians.2. In keeping with: according to instructions.3. the report, state education budgets across the country arefacing cuts estimated at $11.3 billion nationally. With the decliningeconomy, schools face declining budgets, while enrollments are growing.And the new education reform legislation will require accountability forachieving excellence despite the reduction in resources. Also adding tothe strain on state educational resources may be the number of childrenliving in poverty, which is estimated to increase by 650,000 next year. The fiscal year 2003 state budgets will be written "under theharshest fiscal conditions in a decade," according to the NationalConference of State Legislatures The abbreviation NCSL redirects here. For the British educational institution see National College for School Leadership. The National Conference of State Legislatures . Seven state legislatures--Arizona,Alabama, Connecticut, Florida, Hawaii, Iowa and Nebraska--have alreadycalled special sessions to address their budget crises. The report looked at statistics from the National Center forEducation Statistics The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), as part of the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences (IES), collects, analyzes, and publishes statistics on education and public school district finance information in the United States; conducts studies (NCES NCES National Center for Education StatisticsNCES Net-Centric Enterprise Services (US DoD)NCES Network Centric Enterprise ServicesNCES Net Condition Event Systems ) and found that enrollment is expected togrow 3.2 percent this year, and thus an expenditure of $200 billion isneeded to maintain current education services. However, the 47 statessurveyed budgeted only $189 billion for elementary and secondaryeducation funding. Moreover, since 2002 budgets were originally passed,11 states have reduced their school budgets by an amount totalingapproximately $800 million. Some states are expected to suffer severe impacts from the schoolbudget crunch--among them Florida, California and New York New York, state, United StatesNew York,Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of . Others maysuffer moderate or no impacts. Education in Crisis: The State Budget Crunch & OurNation's Schools is online athttp://labor.senate.gov/stateproject.pdf.