By condensing redundant technology programs into a single performance-based technology grant program, H.R. 1 will send more money to schools and target specific needs of individual schools. The bill also ensures that schools will not have to submit multiple grant applications and incur administrative burdens to obtain education technology funding. Obviously, the students of today are the workers of tomorrow. With our help, the future of our nation's youth can be very bright. On Wednesday, April 25, ELC sponsored a second forum covering President Bush's entire No Child Left Behind plan and H.R. 1.
Education is the lighting of a fire . . .
What will happen on the floor, I wouldn't want to guess. That may not be possible. But I am making every effort I can to make sure that Mr. Miller and the Democrats and I are trying to bridge some of the differences, and there are certainly differences, on the other side.