Chris Dodd: “I have submitted for the record data about all 50 States and the number of students eligible to be served. About 10…”

“I have submitted for the record data about all 50 States and the number of students eligible to be served. About 10 million students would be fully served under full funding of title I. We are fully serving about 3 million of the 10 million today. I mentioned the numbers in Alabama earlier. I know in the State of Tennessee, there are 192,000 eligible children. In Connecticut, there are about 80,000 eligible children. In Maine, 34,000. In Georgia, the number of eligible students is 300,000. In Virginia, roughly 179,000 are eligible. In each case, we are only providing about one-third of the support that we ought to be. I think most of my colleagues who have visited schools and talked to superintendents and principals have discovered as they have gone around, title I funds really do work.”