Dale Kildee: “I am proud to introduce the Educating America's Girls Act of 1999 today and urge my colleagues to support this important…”

I rise, again with a heavy heart, to oppose this amendment... to enact this amendment would mean the loss of dollars for a number of States... I do oppose the amendment, again with a heavy heart, but I feel that we must oppose it because…

I rise in strong support of H.R. 4250, a bill to reauthorize Head Start, low-income home energy assistance, and community services block grants. I would like to commend Chairman Ford and Chairman Martinez as well as Mr. Goodling and Ms…

this amendment, which I offer for myself and Mr. Goodling, represents a bipartisan agreement on the bill's opportunity-to-learn provisions. This amendment: Clearly provides that the implementation of model opportunity-to-learn standards by…

The Girls Act responds to findings in the 1998 AAUW Educational Foundation Report, Gender Gaps: Where Schools Still Fail Our Children, which identified a number of areas where the educational needs of girls are still unmet.