However. I want to make it very clear that I will be watching the actions of the Department of Health. Education. and Welfareand other Government agenciesas they affect the education of refugee children. The superintendent of public instruction in California. Dr. Wilson A. Riles. has expressed personally to me his grave concern over the ability of local schools to meet these extra costs. And I would remind my colleagues that not only must basic education costs be met. but additional costs of providing bilingual education to these refugee children must be absorbedand that averages some $400 additional per child. We should and must welcome these children to our schools. But we must not forget that the children will enter our schools as a direct result of Federal policy.