[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 51 (Wednesday, April 14, 1999)]
[House]
[Page H1979]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION ACT

  (Ms. SANCHEZ asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. SANCHEZ. Mr. Speaker, I am sure my colleagues realize this is an 
important week for Federal education policy.
  Today we on the House Committee on Education and the Workforce will 
be holding our first hearing on Title I, the section of the Elementary 
and Secondary Education Act that is designed to get Federal resources 
to the poorest of our Nation's children.
  I will also be meeting with our Superintendent of Public Instruction 
of California, Delaine Eastin, today. She and I have worked together on 
several education issues, including the concern for Title I and other 
programs.
  Title I is a very important program. In particular, it affects my 
district, and I would like to tell my colleagues how. First of all, 
Title I is for the poorest children in the Nation. Fifty percent of the 
students in the school must qualify for the free and reduced lunch in 
order to be a Title I school.
  In our school district, in Garden Grove Unified, for example, 57 of 
the 64 schools qualify for Title I funds. In Anaheim City School 
District, over 50 percent of the schools qualify.
  This is an issue that is of great concern, and I hope that my 
colleagues will work to ensure that Title I is there.

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