[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 35 (Thursday, March 24, 1994)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
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[Congressional Record: March 24, 1994]
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          CONFERENCE REPORT ON GOALS 2000: EDUCATE AMERICA ACT

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                               speech of

                          HON. LYNN C. WOOLSEY

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                       Wednesday, March 23, 1994

  Ms. WOOLSEY. Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of the rule for the 
conference report on Goals 2000: Educate America Act, and against the 
motion to recommit.
  If the House does not pass the conference report today, local schools 
will lose funds that have already been appropriated for Goals 2000 and 
the Safe Schools Act.
  The Goals 2000 conference started with two very different bills, and 
everyone involved in both bodies and both parties worked very hard to 
arrive at the conference report before the House today.
  Goals 2000 will provide a national framework to support State and 
local school reform efforts. And, as an important part of that 
framework, Goals 2000 will ensure that more kids can benefit from 
education reform by helping schools plan and implement coordinated 
services.
  With funds authorized in Goals 2000, schools that want to bring 
health and social services on or near the school site will be able to 
learn from already existing, successful, coordinated service programs, 
like the one in the Roseland School District in Santa Rosa, and the one 
in Lynwood Elementary School in Novato and by replicating these 
successes, meet their own students' needs.
  I urge my colleagues to support the Goals 2000 conference report. A 
``yes'' vote on this conference report is a vote that our children 
enter the classroom ready to learn.

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