You have very, very solid Committee support here.
I think you are a good advertisement for the quality and efficiency and importance of after-school programs.
Do not tell this subcommittee what Congress thinks unless you have some factual basis for it. Do you?
No, you said that the Congress as well as the administration--adopted language to the effect of being disappointed in th...
The studies show that, as summarized, that there was more parental involvement in the program.
Is it not pretty important how it impacted on the Hispanic and African American students where there is customarily a gr...
Well, you have moved from the area where there had been improvement to your generalization of dissatisfaction.
I think it is very, very important.
Our only difficulty, candidly, is when the Administration comes in with a lower figure.
But does that say anything about the inadequacy or failure of the discretionary program?
Well, there are frequently changes in reauthorization which do not bear on a determination that the program is ineffecti...
Well, when you talked about a change from discretionary funding to State grants, how is that relevant on the quality of ...
And that African American and Hispanic middle-school students had better grades, had less absenteeism and tardiness?
So I still do not understand the relevancy of your distinction between discretionary and State grants.
Nobody should decide for anybody else when the life support systems will be turned off.
When you talk about appropriate funding, one of the issues which has concerned me for many years and I have introduced l...
I think this subcommittee for the past decade-plus has been a model of bipartisan cooperation.
Well, would you take a look at that and see if there is some way that can be worked out to the satisfaction of the State...
