Oversight Hearing on Effects of Cuts in Federal Funding on Small School Districts: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Elementary, Secondary, and Vocational Education of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, Ninety-ninth Congress, Second Session, Hearing Held in Paramount, CA, April 4, 1986U.S. Government Printing Office, 1986 - 45 pages |
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Page 44 - Learning is funded by the Office of Educational Research and Improvement of the US Department of Education to conduct research on the education of language minority students in the United States.
Page 7 - That will be entered in the record in its entirety and we would appreciate it if you would give us the highlights of it, and then we may have one or two questions to ask of you.
Page 2 - Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. It's indeed a pleasure to be here today and to be able to take part in this most significant hearing.
Page 13 - Recent criticism of our secondary schools has documented growing deficiencies in the academics preparation of students. The response to this criticism by many states has been to increase the number of academic courses required for high school graduation. The assumption being that more academics is the best preparation for life. The assumption is wrong on two counts, First, it ignores the needs of those high...
Page 43 - To offset those expenses, the typical student contributes nearly two-thirds of the $6,500 from loans and employment. He or she receives approximately 5 percent from his or her family or from public benefits, and the remaining 30 percent from Pell and other grants. Clearly, federal assistance to supplement student and family efforts is what makes college attendance possible for these students. The situation is even more critical for our very low income students whose families are unable to make any...
Page 7 - Education states that approximately 24 percent of our population over 25 years of age have less than a high school diploma.
Page 13 - The needs of the aerospace and other high technology industries are just one example of our nation's critical need for skilled personnel. Yet obtaining skilled personnel will be a difficult task for our nation. A recent study by the National Commission on Secondary Education entitled "The Unfinished Agenda" concluded that the current emphasis on academic education is resulting in a negative impact on vocational education.
Page 43 - Grant reductions for lowincome students and elimination of grants for low to middle income students. "Reconciliation, rescissions, deferrals, sequestration, privatization . . ." None of these terms are household words for us who live outside of Washington.
Page 19 - And we begin to think in terms of what are we going to do about continuing the services that these young people are pursuing.
Page 1 - Shield organization, who will accompany his testimony with a 13-minute film, and then hear several other witnesses. So, we are very pleased to invite to appear before the subcommittee today a distinguished former member of the Committee on Education and Labor and one of the ablest Members of the House, who has abandoned us on this committee to go on to the Ways and Means Committee, but he is giving splendid service there. We are very pleased to welcome Congressman Sam Gibbons of Florida. Mr. Gibbons....