Kendra S. Horn: “when I first came here to Congress 8 years ago, I made improving our public schools a top priority. When the Republicans…”

“when I first came here to Congress 8 years ago, I made improving our public schools a top priority. When the Republicans came to power in 1974-1975, I knew that, under the leadership of the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Goodling), we would have quality, better teaching, local control, and accountability. I am pleased to report that significant progress has been made on all of these goals. The first step in improving our schools is to make sure that children enter the classroom ready to learn. This is especially true for children from disadvantaged families who often do not have the same family resources as middle-class children. Republicans have been leading the way over the past few years with Head Start. As this graph shows, funding for this program has been increased 106 percent in the past 5 years. That has really helped thousands of children throughout America. We can see right here in this Head Start funding increases under the Republican Congress when we start from $3 to $7 essentially. And it was quite a spread over a decade, and we can take great accomplishment in that. There is a lot more such as that.”