Dale Kildee: “H.R. 6, the Improving America's Schools Act of 1994, reauthorizes and amends most of the Federal Government programs…”

“H.R. 6, the Improving America's Schools Act of 1994, reauthorizes and amends most of the Federal Government programs that provide assistance to elementary and secondary education in our country. The majority of these programs are included in the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, and it would provide approximately $10 billion of assistance to States and local school districts in fiscal year 1994, and hopefully more in 1995. The largest of these programs, title I, provides funding to over 90 percent of the school districts in the country. Other programs authorized by H.R. 6 include Even Start and migrant education, the Magnet Schools Assistance Act, Indian education, an expanded Dwight D. Eisenhower Professional Development Program, chapter 2, the Jacob K. Javits Gifted and Talented Program, Impact Aid and the National Education Statistics Act. The bill is the basic Federal education bill. Much attention has been focused recently on one aspect of it, but the bill is 901 pages long. The authorization for 12 existing programs, Mr. Chairman, are not extended in H.R. 6. Those programs are eliminated. The purpose of H.R. 6 is not only to extend the life of programs, but to reshape them.”