Mr. Chairman, I fear that the sponsor of this amendment is not desiring to respond to his own colleagues about the need to not waste the $20 billion that is already being spent on Head Start and Even Start by failing to sustain the progress of these students and has unfortunately resorted to calling this pork. It is an insurant and an investment that we are already making in at-risk children so that they will be able to succeed in school.
The speaker is addressing concerns about funding for Head Start and Even Start programs.
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I am saying, Mr. Chairman, that the way his amendment is worded, it did not apply to that literature and its distribution.
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…
I fear that the sponsor of this amendment is not desiring to respond to his own colleagues about the need to not waste the $20 billion that is already being spent on Head Start and Even Start by failing to sustain the progress of these…
That is a local school and locally elected school board's decision, not the Federal Government's.
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