I commend our country's music teachers for their efforts and for the role they play in the lives of our children, and I urge my colleagues to join me by supporting this legislation and vote yes on final passage.
Supporting legislation related to music education during a House floor speech.
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Over 25 years, $90 million a year for 25 years, that sounds like big money to me.
When we were negotiating the 100,000 teachers last year, the first thing the administration said is we have to take about 10 percent off the top, I think they wanted 15 percent, to keep on the Federal level. I said, wait a minute, you are…
Right. Secondly, only the partnership gets the money. The church itself cannot get the money. The partnership that the church is working with gets the money, not the church itself.
New York City would get an extra $190 million if we were fully funding the 40 percent, and Los Angeles would get another $90 million. When we talk about class size reduction, when we talk about school maintenance, think what they could do…
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