Speaker. I want to commend the gentleman from Florida and the gentleman from Kentucky for their work and their efforts on this bill. I will support the bill. but I have some concern about secondary migration of refugees and the impact aid formula in this amended measure. The way that it works is that if you have an existing large population. as an example. of Cubans or Indochinese. that you are then precluded from impact aid assistance. where it might very much be needed because you do not have a significant school population increase. such a circumstance I believe will occur in my district. and I hope that the committee will look further at that particular problem as it impacts some of the areas that we represent. Secondary migration of Indochinese refugees represents a unique problem for which school districts should receive assistance and certainly not be denied aid on this basis. The date for consideration of aid status is really too late to help many school districts with large refugee populations. The obvious denial of adult education assistance and the basic grant assistance of $450 should be extended to the Indochinese in this measure as it is to the Cubans and Haitians. Nevertheless even with these glaring inequities I will vote for this measure because the denial to all would not solve the problems that I have outlined.
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