Richard Pombo: “This bill, H.R. 2508, is the culmination of many years of work that we have put in in trying to address the educational…”

“This bill, H.R. 2508, is the culmination of many years of work that we have put in in trying to address the educational needs of the community that I am from, Tracy, California. The city and the school district have come up with a very innovative idea, and that is to create a school that will be a high-technology school that will take all the way from kindergarten through post-secondary education. Madam Speaker, as part of that, a small portion of this land would also be dedicated for economic development. That small portion of this land that is dedicated to economic development will be targeted toward high-technology firms, which will have the ability to come in and set up a cooperative effort with the school district so that the kids that are graduated from this school, with the vocational education that they need, can go directly from education into working for these high-technology firms. It is an innovative idea. It is something that a lot of people have worked extremely hard on in coming up with this plan.”