In the FY 2001 budget deal reached on Friday 12/15/00, the Community Technology Centers program under the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Vocational and Adult Education (http://www.ed.gov/offices/OVAE/CTC) received $65 million which will help create 650 CTCs in low-income rural and urban neighborhoods. This is significantly lower than President Clinton's original request of $100 million which would have created 1,000 centers. It is also represents a step down from the $80 million for CTCs under the budget agreement reached in October that eventually collapsed. However, it is still twice the amount that the CTC program received under FY 2000. And last year's amount represented a more than threefold increase in CTC funding since the program's inception in 1998. The budget figures can be found online: http://www.ed.gov/offices/OUS/01app.pdf [Adobe PDF format]. The line for CTCs is on page 1, item 3, section (g).