Joe Baca: “I rise today to support full funding for the ``No Child Left Behind'' Act (H.R. 1). The new little red schoolhouse…”

“I rise today to support full funding for the ``No Child Left Behind'' Act (H.R. 1). The new little red schoolhouse entrances to the Department of Education building are a perfect example that the Administration is ``all show and no tell'' when it comes to education. By building those little red schoolhouses, at a cost of $98,000, at least 160 children have already been left behind by the Administration's cuts in education funding. The Bush Administration thinks that the American people will see those schoolhouses and believe that the Nation's children are in good hands under the Bush education system. The American people know better. Americans will notice when after school programs are no longer available for their children. Americans will notice when their special needs children cannot get extra help from their own community schools. Americans will notice when their teachers become frustrated because they can't get the training they need to provide the best quality instruction to their students. Americans will notice when these same teachers have to leave their students because they can't get the training required to meet the Administration's new accountability standards. Americans will notice when their kids can't receive as much in student loans, and don't have access to scholarships for low-income students.”