Chaka Fattah: “I concur with the gentleman's amendment, and I yield back the balance of my time.”

I claim the time in opposition to the amendment even though my opposition is not as apparent as it might otherwise be. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Pennsylvania is recognized for 5 minutes.

We still have a need, as the President has laid out, to return the Nation to being the number-one nation in the world producing college-educated adults.

I authored it some 17 years ago. Millions of young people have benefited.

That in the Nixon school finance commission, in its summary, it said that as long as we have a property-based funded school system, poor children in our country are going to disproportionately fail.