Katie Porter: “Mr. Chairman, I believe the gentleman from Florida [Mr. Mica] has put his finger on the right place to put more money…”

“Mr. Chairman, I believe the gentleman from Florida [Mr. Mica] has put his finger on the right place to put more money, because title I concentration grants go to the schools that need the money most. I have been saying for quite some time now, and I want to say again, that one of the major problems with title I is that it comes out of that era of our Government where we felt that in order to get something passed here in the House for people who need it, we had to spread it around to every single congressional district, every school district in America. And title I money goes to school districts all over this country who have plenty of resources and no need for the additional money, and we ought to stop that practice. The authorizing committee ought to address targeting this money where we have real serious problems with poor kids that have no opportunity, and stop sending it to school districts like some in my district; New Tria high school get title I money and the administrators and the parents will tell us that it should not be sent to them at all.”