[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 29 (Wednesday, March 6, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H1723]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




     WE MUST PREVENT THE SHORTCHANGING OF OUR CHILDREN'S EDUCATION

  (Mr. LEVIN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LEVIN. Mr. Speaker, on Monday night I went to a school board 
meeting in one of my districts in suburban Detroit and talked with the 
school board that is working hard to make good things happen. There was 
real consternation about the cuts in education proposed by the majority 
here.
  Then, yesterday morning, I was at an elementary school, Pattengill, 
in my old hometown of Berkley, MI, and I met with kids there in grades 
1 through 3, and talked to their teachers. That program is supported by 
title I funds. There is a teacher with partial funding.
  I read to and with the children, and I saw the results of an 
effective title I program. The test scores have gone up. The children 
are reading and beginning to learn basic math skills. What is being 
proposed on the majority side here to very much diminish the funding 
for those programs is only going to shortchange the children of 
America. We have to prevent that shortchanging.

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