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Jolene Unsoeld: “I thank the gentlewoman for yielding to me. Madam Chairman, some speeches coming from across the aisle would be much…”

On the recordMarch 22, 1994
I thank the gentlewoman for yielding to me. Madam Chairman, some speeches coming from across the aisle would be much more appropriately made before a local school board. This is not an amendment about values, it is not an amendment about abstinence, it is not an amendment about those things that we feel would better our teenagers. What it is about is who makes the decisions for local school boards, the men and women from the community who run for the school board or who work with the school officials, who work with the parents on a daily basis? Are they rightly the ones to make the decisions about what will be in their curricula and how their local money will be used? I submit that that is where these decisions should be made, and not imposed by a big-brother government that is drafting a curriculum at the Federal level and imposing it on local schools. For gosh sakes, get Government off their backs.
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Jolene Unsoeld
Democratic · Washington
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Addressing local control over school curricula during a debate on education policy.

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