Field Hearing on the School Improvement Amendments of 1988 and the Administration's Budget Proposals: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Elementary, Secondary, and Vocational Education of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, One Hundred First Congress, First Session, Hearing Held in Los Angeles, CA, March 31, 1989

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Page 35 - HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION AND LABOR, SUBCOMMITTEE ON ELEMENTARY, SECONDARY, AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION, Washington, DC The subcommittee met, pursuant to call, at 10 am, in room 2175, Rayburn House Office Building, Hon.
Page 81 - Learning is the indispensable investment required for success in the 'information age' we are entering. . . .The people of the United States need to know that Individuals in our society who do not possess the levels of skill, literacy, and training essential to this new era will be effectively disenfranchised, not simply from the material rewards that acccnpany competent performance, but also from the chance to participate fully in our national life.
Page 81 - If present trends continue, the scarcity of well-educated and well-qualified people in the work force will seriously damage this country's competitive position in an increasingly challenging global marketplace. Our industries will be unable to grow and compete internationally because a growing educational underclass will lack the necessary skills and work habits to function productively on the job. Moreover, they will lack the levels of literacy needed to make informed choices about their lives or...
Page 25 - Because mathematics holds the key to leadership in our information-based society, the widening gap between those who are mathematically literate and those who are not coincides, to a frightening degree, with racial and economic categories. We are at risk of becoming a divided nation in which knowledge of mathematics supports a productive, technologically powerful elite while a dependent, semiliterate majority, disproportionately Hispanic and Black, find economic and political power beyond reach.
Page 15 - ... comments. I believe that the modifications suggested therein have validity and that if given consideration by your Committee will serve to provide the Congress and the nation with a more acceptable measure and a more workable ordinance after its passage. Again, accept this expression of my gratitude both to you, Mr. Chairman, and to the members of your Committee. I have the honor to be. ROBERT W. SCOTT, Governor of Xorth Carolina Chairman, Education Commission of the States, 1971-72. STATEMENT...
Page 72 - Mexican border, and I am here today as president of the National Association of Development Organizations to submit the testimony for the record.
Page 1 - Representative Assembly. The Committee on Ethics has a report and revisions to propose to you. The presentation will be made by the chairperson of the Ethics Committee, Mrs. Lauri Wynn. Lauri. Mrs. Lauri Wynn (Wisconsin): Madam President, as chairperson of NEA's Committee on Professional Ethics...
Page 40 - Mr. Payne? Mr. PAYNE. Thank you very much. I just have a question, as a former PTA President of the elementary school where my children attended school many years ago.
Page 32 - I, too, am very pleased to have the opportunity to be here to talk with you today.
Page 49 - Oceanside Unified School District. I am also president of the California Impact Aid Association which represents 300 school districts 1n California and over 2 million students.

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