Arlen Specter: “These funds are not for students who have left the education program and entered the criminal justice system. There are…”

“These funds are not for students who have left the education program and entered the criminal justice system. There are other funds for people who are out of the education system and in the criminal justice system. These funds specifically are directed to dropout prevention programs. That is the language which is included in the budget request for the Department of Education which supports their request for $13 billion plus for title I and has the requirement for 1 percent, and the language prevention programs is specifically here. They are using these funds, as the Senator from New Mexico appropriately says, to get ahead of the program. The long and short of it is that these are funds to prevent dropouts.”