+OK 4007 octets Received: from smtp00.nwnexus.com (smtp00.nwnexus.com [192.135.191.25]) by mail3.halcyon.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA26433 for ; Sat, 25 Sep 1999 16:00:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sg23.sg23.com (ns1.sg23.com [216.42.110.2] (may be forged)) by smtp00.nwnexus.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA13140 for ; Sat, 25 Sep 1999 16:00:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from oemcomputer (216.42.110.75 [216.42.110.75]) by sg23.sg23.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2448.0) id TP0AZQZ2; Sat, 25 Sep 1999 19:03:37 -0400 Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.19990925174814.00b3d8b0@mail.sg23.com> X-Sender: fredb001@mail.sg23.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.58 Date: Sat, 25 Sep 1999 17:49:26 -0400 To: 71524.2205@compuserve.com From: "Richard Anglin" (by way of Fred Battey ) Subject: FED ED CUTS Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Status: This sounds like the perfect start for a return to REAL local control and BASICS. You don't suppose the NEA thinks these are 13 negatives do you? Polly ____________________________ ----- Original Message ----- Sent: Friday, September 24, 1999 8:49 PM Subject: Fed. Ed cuts Comments invited and forward widely! This is from an NEA source. ============================================================ Education Advocate Online: September 24, 1999 "School is back in session, and people are talking about improving education. Only Congress is not listening." Sen. Tom Harkin (IA) FY 2000 EDUCATION FUNDING - HOUSE SUBCOMMITTEE SLASHES BUDGET. Last night, after months of stalling and despite thousands of messages from activists for children and public education, the House Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education appropriations subcommittee passed a bill that slashed federal funding to education. The bill fails to give public schools the resources to succeed. The bill is disastrous for children and public education. To best demonstrate this, Education Advocate Online presents: THE TOP THIRTEEN REASONS WHY THE HOUSE LABOR, HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, AND EDUCATION APPROPRIATIONS BILL FAILS CHILDREN AND PUBLIC EDUCATION 13. Eliminates the School-to-Work program and freezes funds to Vocational Education hurting non-college bound students. 12. Fails to improve and expand Head Start 11. Hinders the ability of students to pay for college by cutting or eliminating student assistance and scholarship programs. 10. Drops funding increases for bilingual education teachers hurting Limited English Proficient (LEP) students. 9. Scraps the GEAR UP program, which helps young people prepare early for success in college. 8. Cuts funds for the successful America Reads program. 7. Eliminates the Teacher Technology Training Program, making it more difficult to integrate technology into classrooms. 6. Denies hundreds of thousands of students access to after-school programs. 5. Freezes Title I at current levels when the Congressional Research Service estimated that Title I needs an increase of $16 billion to fully serve all eligible children. 4. Undermines teacher professional development by lumping the successful Eisenhower Professional Development program into an under funded block grant with the much needed class size reduction program. 3. Eliminates the Goals 2000 program for standards based reforms. 2. Breaks the promise Congress made last year to reduce class size in the early grades by failing to provide funds for an additional 100,000 quality teachers. 1. Cuts education funding by over $200 million below current levels and fails to meet the need of rising enrollments, growing number of children with special needs and the national shortage of teachers. .