Speech #990197648

Another California WEEA grant was used by the disability rights education and defense fund in Berkeley to support activities to increase educational equity for disabled women and girls through development of a model curriculum and counseling materials to educate disabled teenage girls and young women on educational and career opportunities and for a national conference to bring together persons interested in educational equity and the special needs of disabled persons. particularly racial and ethnic minority disabled girls and women. Another California WEEA grant went to the Chinese Cultural Foundation in San Francisco where it was used to develop a chronicle of nearly 150 years of ChineseAmerican womens history. detailing the lives. struggles. and achievements of ChineseAmerican women with special emphasis on those women who. amidst hardships and discrimination. made important contributions to their communities and society at large. This previously undocumented and unknown history of ChineseAmerican women is now used as a classroom curriculum. providing role models for ChineseAmerican girls. Despite its record of success. the WEEA Program has been under constant attack by the Reagan administration. which has repeatedly proposed repealing the program. In 1982. the entire bipartisan National Advisory Council was replaced despite the fact that the terms for the existing members had not yet expired.