Field Hearing on Education at a Crossroads, "what Works? What's Wasted?": Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations of the Committee on Education and the Workforce, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fifth Congress, Second Session, Hearing Held in Manchester, TN, August 26, 1998, Volume 4 |
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APPENDIX ASSOCIATION AND REPRESENTATIVE August 26 bill block grants BLOCK SCHEDULING BOB SCHAFFER bureaucracy Clarisworks Coffee County computer clusters concern Congress Congressional District cost COUNTY JUNIOR HIGH create DONNA TREVATHAN due process hearing Failure Free Reading federal dollars federal education programs federal funding federal government Federal Legislative Chair flexibility give going grant writers HAMBLEN COUNTY Hoekstra and Congressman JACK SISK JAMES CLAWSON Journal of Learning kids Learning Disabilities literacy little bit Lockavitch MCMINNVILLE Michigan Milledgeville million MORRISTOWN Murray National PTA nonreaders Oversight and Investigations paperwork parent involvement PARENT TEACHER'S ASSOCIATION PATSY MINK percent PETE HOEKSTRA problem RON KIND rural school districts school board school system Sigrid Stewart special education students spend spent squeaky Subcommittee on Oversight superintendent talking target taxpayer teaching TENNESSEE PARENT TEACHER'S Tennessee PTA thing TULLAHOMA HIGH SCHOOL WARREN COUNTY JUNIOR Washington Workforce WRITTEN STATEMENT
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Page 40 - A more child-centered education funding system would empower parents to make decisions about where their children should attend schools receiving the funds to use the money to address the unique needs of their students as efficiently as possible, and to create an accountability system based at the local level. The question of what portion of education dollars reach the classroom would easily be answered: they arrive at the classroom with the child.
Page 17 - Cole has called attention to a "certain degree of rebelliousness and nonconformance within the labor movement now that we did not see even as recently as five years ago. . . . This is a form of anti-colonialism that the locals are asserting.
Page 39 - In other words, we do not have enough evidence that tax dollars are more effectively spent in federal programs than they would have been had the dollars never left the state. Moreover, federal programs force states to comply with many rules and regulation, and often favor larger school districts who can afford to hire "professional" grant writers to win grant awards.
Page 64 - s Who in American Education and Who 's Who in the South and Southwest, Dr. Lockavitch has spent the past thirty years training teachers, parents and administrators across the nation on how to meet the unique problems of America's 'bottom of the bottom
Page 19 - In some areas they have more money than they know what to do with, but they are not spending it in the most judicious manner.
Page 19 - I know this is going to be hard to believe, but I am going to use the statement and paraphrase it, in many ways, American schools are awash with money.
Page 49 - Once again, thank you for the opportunity to speak on a subject so important to the future of our children and of our country.