Political Quotes

“I would be very happy to indicate in an amendment such as this, such as the gentleman from New York has offered, that the large percentage of it must go for improving parent literacy and parenting skills. In all of the programs we are discovering that family literary is the answer if we are really going to help the disadvantaged become less disadvantaged or not disadvantaged at all. So, if it went strictly for a large portion or directly to parenting skills and to improving literacy skills, then I would not have too much problem with it. But what we are doing in this particular piece of legislation, Mr. Chairman, is saying that here is just one more reporting requirement. ...their greatest concern is the amount of hours they spend doing the paperwork when they could be doing it either in teaching or in preparation for their teaching, and so this provision just creates an enormous paperwork requirement on LEA's because they will have to show to the Department satisfactorily that they are spending 1 percent of their title I funds on parental involvement.”