This substitute proposal. which is being offered without the benefit of any committee hearings. and against the advice of most professional and lay groups. also would fail to extend the special programs for children of migratory farmworkers or the children enrolled in Indian schools. These are two groups of our countrys neediest children. We have just launched efforts to overcome the grave educational deficiencies many of these children face. And yet this proposal jeopardizes even these initial efforts. The children of our migrant farmworkers. for example. face particularly difficult problems in acquiring the education and training that would enable them to build a better and brighter future. The loss of these special education programs would only condemn them to the standard of poverty that has so commoniy afflicted their parents. This block grant approach Is fraught with other defects.