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On the recordMarch 22, 1994
But the Doolittle amendment imposes a Federal curriculum on how local school boards can use their own dollars. It has not been done before in our history, and it is not appropriate now for the Federal Government to dictate to local governments how they would use their own education funding money.
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Jolene Unsoeld
Democratic · Washington

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Opposing the Doolittle amendment regarding federal control over local education funding.

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