My question is this: Am I correct in assumin-- that as a part of that requirement. the Presidentor his designee. who in this case would most likely be th- Secretary of Health. Education. and Welfarewould be required to report to the Congress the policies. he is following. or will follow. in the distribution of funds which may be appropriated for the purpose of "bilingual and vocational training" under this program? I ask this question because I am deeply concerned about the possible effect on our local school systems resulting from their assumption of the costs of educating these refugee children unlessand I would consider this entirely appropriatethe Federal Government establishes a program to reimburse State and local education agencies for the costs which are involved. Consider the ease of my State of California. Assuming we absorb just 10 percent of the refugees. andas HBW representatives have stated50 pereent of those refugees are schoolage childrenCalifornia could expect at least 5.650 additional refugee children to be accommodated in our public schools. Our State average per pupil expenditure. as adjusted for inflation. is about $1.400 per year. This would mean that the cost to California taxpayers in the first year alone would be about $7.9 million to educate the refugee children. I think it is obvious. Mr.
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