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