[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 20]
[House]
[Page 29497]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



            TEACHER EMPOWERMENT ACT WILL FIX EDUCATION WOES

  (Mr. BALLENGER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. BALLENGER. Mr. Speaker, this is the headline in the New York 
Daily News on Monday: the headline says, Not Fit to Teach Your Kid.
  In some city schools, 50 percent of the teachers in New York are 
uncertified. Well, we can help the City of New York if we gave them the 
flexibility that is in the House-passed Teacher Empowerment Act so that 
they can properly prepare some of the existing teachers they have; so 
that they can raise the academic achievement level of all of their 
students.

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