Record enrollments and growing communities are leading to severe overcrowding in our nation s public schools. Putting students in trailers and going to school in shifts is not the answer. America s schools can t support today s technology. Forty-six percent of the public schools in America lack the electrical and communication wiring to support today s computer systems. We can t expect our children to succeed under these conditions.
Students learn better with smaller classes in modern and safe surroundings.
Yet our states and local communities alone don t have the resources to fix our schools. It doesn t have to be this way. In fact, Congress has a plan to help our states and local communities rebuild our schools. Congress has the solution. America's Better Classroom Act of 2001.