Taft and several HEW education officials who accompanied her indicated that HEWs position had not changed. Mr. President. the current plan Is clearly inadequate and if we let it stand it could precipitate a crisis of disastrous proportions in school districts where large numbers of refugees choose to resettle. In the Nation as a whole. It is estimated that it will take almost $1.600 per year per refugee pupil to provide an adequate education. Adopting the 100student minimum. this would mean that a school district would have to spend over $160.000 for refugee student education before it even became eligible for Federal aid which would then only amount to onefifth of the cost of educating those children. I am certain I do not have to explain what a shortfall of the magnitude of $160.000 would mean to the average school district in this country struggling to make ends meet. The Federal Government simply cannot turn its back on State and local governments in their efforts to aid refugees. From the beginning I have supported efforts to ease the absorption of Vietnamese and Cambodians into this society. But I continue to believe that this Is essentially a Federal problem.
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