NAN A. S. HAYWORTH: “I am struck by the energy and the enthusiasm, the creativity of those who join us in this 105th Congress: our colleague…”

“I am struck by the energy and the enthusiasm, the creativity of those who join us in this 105th Congress: our colleague, the gentleman from New Jersey [Mr. Pappas], and also one of your colleagues, the gentleman from Pennsylvania [Mr. Pitts], who outlined I think as a former school teacher really what I call the human equation when it comes to Federal dollars involved in education, as they exist today. Because our good friend, the gentleman from Pennsylvania, has come up with a notion of a resolution for dollars to the classroom, saying that henceforth it should be our goal to be mindful of the human equation; for the 6 to 8 percent of funding that the Federal Government supplies to school districts around the Nation, 90 percent of that money should get into the classroom to help teachers teach and help students learn, and 10 percent should be reserved for bureaucrats and buildings and the cost of administration, a 9 to 1 difference. Because our initiative should be focused upon local control, upon sending those resources to where those resources can make the most difference, and, in the case of the proposed land grant legislation that I hope to introduce shortly, even finding ways where money does not have to be spent, per se, but we can use those historical examples that have served us well educationally in the past to offer hope for the future.”