The cities have no specific entitlement under the Quie proposal. In many States where political differences exist between the State capital and the urban centers. the victims of political disagreement may well be the very disadvantaged children we are trying to help. This socalled "block grant" plan. which is offered without the benefit of any congressional hearings or the support of a single major education group. would jeopardize. if not wipe out. the special education programs for the children of migrant farmworkers. These children face particularly difficult problems in acquiring a decent education that would enable them to improve their lives and to broaden their employment opportunities. The loss of this program would consign many. if not most. of them to the same standard of poverty which infests and saps the lives of so many migrant farm families today. The Quie plan would reduce the primary emphasis of ESEA. which is to help the disadvantaged schoolchildren of this country. It would also weaken our efforts to insure that quality education is offered without regard to race.