Speaker. I rise to express my support of the joint resolution. and to engage the distinguished chairman of the LaborHEW Subcommittee in a very brief colloquy. In the package of budget amendments submitted to the President last month. there was a request for $15 million to fund title III of the Refugee Education Assistance Act of 1980. Title III provides Federal assistance to school districts with large concentrations of recently arrived refugee students. The request indicated that the $15 million would be spent in the 198182 school year. However. school systems are now struggling to serve refugee children without diminishing the quality of education to American students. Dade County. Fla.. with 13.313 Cuban and Haitian children registered since April. is probably worse off. but other school systems have received hundreds or even thousands of Cuban.
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