A repeated effort by the administration to cut back aid to federally impacted areasby $110 million in fiscal 1972. and by $177.5 million in the next fiscal yearwhere Federal installations and large numbers of employees place an especially heavy burden on local services such as education. and at a time when no school or community can afford a reduction in Federal aid. And an administration budget for fiscal 1973 that. despite an extensive reshuffling of funds into new categories. fails to disguise a drop of $138 million from funding approved for the current fiscal year for existing Office of Education programs. Now. however. there has been a major change of position by the administration regarding programs enacted several years ago and progressively strengthened by Congress to aid educationally deprived children and to address the problems of juvenile delinquency. handicapped children. migrant children. children trapped in poverty. and children whose language is other than English anC who have a serious need for bilingualbicultural programs. Now the President would affirm. as in his recent message to Congress. that where Elementary and Secondary Education Act. title I funds "have been concentrated. the results have been frequently encouraging and sometimes dramatic." I have welcomed the Presidents recent commitment to the position I have argued for several years. that these funds much reach impoverished areas in sufficient amounts to have a real impact. I would point out. however. that were the President to assert leadership through a decision to request funds for the ESEA title I programs at the full level of congressional authorizations under the current aid formula. more than $6 billion could be immediately channeled to launch comprehensive education and development services for children in impoverished areas of our cities and rural areas.