Immigrant Education: Federal Funding Has Not Kept Pace With Student
Increases (Testimony, 04/14/94, GAO/T-HEHS-94-146).

More than two million immigrant students enrolled in the nation's
schools during the past decade.  The geographic concentration of these
students has increased the financial burden of some school districts.
This testimony focuses on a March 1991 report (GAO/HRD-91-50) on the
Emergency Immigrant Education Act Program.  GAO discusses the following
key findings: (1) program funds are provided to school districts with
large numbers of immigrant students; (2) program funding is not keeping
pace with the increasing number of eligible students; and (3) many
students eligible for program funds also participate in other federally
funded education programs, but estimates are hard to obtain. Proposed
legislative changes in allocating program funding must consider that
immigrant students pose costly and increasing challenges for many
districts but that chances are slim for substantially increased federal
appropriations.  H.R. 6 funding provisions run the risk of allowing per
student funding to decline to the point that program funding could have
little impact.  S. 1513 could concentrate needed assistance, but also
eliminate funding for many districts that find even small amounts of aid
to be critical.

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 REPORTNUM:  T-HEHS-94-146
     TITLE:  Immigrant Education: Federal Funding Has Not Kept Pace With 
             Student Increases
      DATE:  04/14/94
   SUBJECT:  Bilingual education
             Aid for education
             Students
             Immigrants
             Immigration or emigration
             Federal funds
             Educational grants
             Public schools
             Disadvantaged persons
IDENTIFIER:  Dept. of Education Emergency Immigrant Education Act Program
             Dept. of Education Chapter 1 Program for Educationally 
             Disadvantaged Children
             Migrant Education Program
             Dept. of Education Bilingual Education Program
             State Legalization Impact Assistance Grant
             Transition Program for Refugee Children
             
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