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Jerry Brown: “What we are doing in funding this particular program is vital to the further utilization, the development of a market…”

On the recordOctober 11, 1995
What we are doing in funding this particular program is vital to the further utilization, the development of a market, if you could use that term, for increased communication activities through the schools. Education is considered to be a major market. However, what I am afraid of is that the opposition to this stems from a feeling that the role of the Federal Government is not to assist education. I went through this in 1981, when President Reagan submitted his first budget, and NSF had some very interesting things in this area being done. They were totally eliminated. The grounds were not that they were not important, but it was not an appropriate role for the Federal Government.
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Jerry Brown
California
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Discussing the importance of federal funding for education programs.

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