On the recordOctober 13, 1998
is the President's school construction program a good idea or is it a gift to his urban fund- raising friends? There are 15,600 school districts in America. Half the money is designated for 100 urban poor. There are urban poor, but there are rural poor, too. There are 1,000 rural poor school districts with no funding. The other half of the money is available to additional urban poor districts. You can bet his urban fund-raising friends will receive the majority of those funds, too, and 15,400 rural school districts across America will receive nothing. Federalizing school construction will delay by several years the ability to construct the schools, will increase the cost, and only help the President's fund-raising friends.
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