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Mark Souder: “I personally am very disappointed that we had to withdraw the Senate amendment that would have allowed some of these…”

On the recordApril 21, 1999
I personally am very disappointed that we had to withdraw the Senate amendment that would have allowed some of these funds to be used from last year's teachers program, if a school so chose, for IDEA. Because, in fact, this sets parameters for the Federal Government to grant waivers under certain conditions, but that would have given real dollar flexibility to schools if they felt that they had their class size down. Like in Indiana, where we have mandated that the class size go down, many of the schools have reached those class sizes. Therefore, they are not eligible for the teachers funds in most cases and they would like to be able to use their money for IDEA.
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Mark Souder
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Discussing the impact of a bill on school funding and class size flexibility.

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