The Bilingual Education Program will receive an appropriation of $199 million. Of the $199 million. $105.7 million will go directly to school districts in the form of grants. Under this provision funding will also be secured for emergency immigrant education. The Emergency Immigrant Education Program will receive $30 million. These funds are badly needed in places like New York where the immigrant population is very large. Also. the numbers of individuals working to meet the education requirements of the new immigration law increases daily and is overburdening the existing immigrant education services. Another point of interest in this comprehensive legislative appropriations. is the inclusion of funds for education of the handicapped and vocational rehabilitation programs. Both of these programs are instrumental in our efforts to increase the involvement of handicapped individuals in society.
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