[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 146 (Wednesday, October 14, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H10840]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




          PARTNERSHIP WITH THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT ON EDUCATION

  (Mr. SNYDER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SNYDER. Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to hear that the negotiations 
are now concentrated on education as the issue this week before we go 
back to our districts.
  Let me make two points. Hopefully we will get some progress on 
education in these final days of the budget negotiations. I fear it 
will be too little to be of great help to our districts back home.
  I recently made a tour of one of my schools in my district, and I 
spend a lot of time visiting schools. The superintendent and principal 
took me around to show me how they had parced together these buildings, 
put these buildings together, different ages, poor wiring systems, 
inadequate for the technology of the day; science labs with inadequate 
utilities, gyms with inadequate air conditioning, the problems that 
they have in trying to keep up in a rural district with the needs for 
school construction and school renovation.
  These are real problems, whether you are in an urban area, a rural 
district or a suburban area. Our school districts want help modernizing 
their buildings and building new classrooms. They know they can do it 
in partnership with the Federal Government, with them maintaining local 
control. They know we are not about taking away their local control.

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