[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 146 (Wednesday, October 14, 1998)]
[House]
[Pages H10840-H10841]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




        MAKING EDUCATION IMPROVEMENT A ONE-MONTH-A-YEAR PRIORITY

  (Mr. BROWN of Ohio asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BROWN of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, in October of every election year the 
Republican leadership says they support public education. The other 11 
months they try to dismantle the Department of Education, they try to 
cut Head Start and school lunches, they try to weaken the student loan 
program.
  Now, for the month before the election, Republicans reluctantly say 
they want to better fund public education. But the issue is this: 
Should we adopt the Republican plan, which is a blank check to school 
administrators, which will mean more money in bureaucracy, more money 
in central offices, more money wasted in school districts, or do we 
adopt the democratic plan to put 100,000 teachers in the classroom?

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  Mr. Speaker, we should support the democratic plan. It means more 
modern schools, it means more teachers, and it means smaller class 
size. It simply makes sense.

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