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William F. Goodling: “As I tried to point out earlier, we are not talking about a language, we are talking about more than 100 languages. I…”

On the recordSeptember 10, 1998
As I tried to point out earlier, we are not talking about a language, we are talking about more than 100 languages. I would like to also point out at this particular time we are talking in this language about 583 grants. There are 16,000 school districts in this country, public school districts. There are 110,000 schools. We are talking about 583 grants, many of which do not even go to school systems. They go to other organizations. So let us keep all of this in perspective. Most of the help that goes to LEP children comes from Title I, not from this program, from Title I.
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William F. Goodling
Pennsylvania
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Discussing the distribution of grants for language education and support for LEP children.

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