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Vernon Ehlers: “This provision is, first of all, a grant to the school, not to the teacher, so it is not even as far along as the list…”

On the recordOctober 24, 2000
This provision is, first of all, a grant to the school, not to the teacher, so it is not even as far along as the list that the chairman gave a moment ago. It is a grant to the school and not to the teacher. Secondly, you have to recognize teachers move from one school to another. Just yesterday I spoke in a school, and there was a teacher in the public school who had previously taught in a religious school in my community. If you educate or train a teacher, are you going to say once we have trained them with Federal money, they cannot teach in a private school anymore, even if they were trained with Federal money while they were in the public school?
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Vernon Ehlers
Republican · Michigan

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Discussing the implications of federal grants for teacher training during a debate.

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