This important program will give answer to the urgent recommendation of the experts that a child that is read to at home. by his or her parents. is better able to achieve academically than the child whose parents cannot read to them. or otherwise be involved in their scholastic experiences. The parents of those children will now have that chance. I am very pleased that 3 percent of funds appropriated for Even Start will go to migrant children and their parents. H.R. 5 extends and revises title II of the Education for Economic Security Act. better known as the MathScience Act. It revises the program in a manner that will focus more of those scarce dollars at the local level. to enable teachers and students alike to prepare for and respond to an increasingly technologically oriented society.