Mr. Speaker. it is with great pleasure that I r!se to speak today on funding for emergency immigrant education assistance. Yesterday. the administration announced its decision to release the $30 million which Congress had appropriated at the close of last years session for the emergency immigrant education assistance program. I commend the decision to make this money available to the many school districts which educate illegal immigrant children. Mr. Speaker. this money is desperately needed by school systems such as the Brownsville School District. which is located in my congressional district. During the 198182 school year. 791 undocumented immigrant children were enrolled in Brownsville schools. 461 during the 198283 school year. and 352 during the present school year. Mr. Raul Besterio. superintendent of the Brownsville schools. estimates that the cost to educate each child is $1.350.
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