Madam President. the Stafford amendment would add $1 million to the Higher Education Program for migrant students. These funds will allow the Department of Education to fund three additional projects in 1988. In 1987. the Department of Education held a new competition for this program but funded five fewer projects than were funded previously. This amendment will aid us in getting back to where we were last year. I am pleased to say that we now have one of these programs at the University of South Florida in Tampa. These programs do an exceptional job at recruiting potential dropouts out of the migrant community and setting them on a course toward academic accomplishment. It is my understanding that the funds for this amendment will come from the funds set aside for coordination activities under the Compensatory Education Program for Migrant Students and that the Migrant Student Record Transfer System [MSRTS] will still receive an increase above the 1987 level. We have provided a $20 million increase for this program. a larger increase than the House. so I am comfortable making this transfer of funds. It is also my understanding that this transfer will be added to the $300.000 increase we have provided to enhance recruitment activities at the 18 HEP projects that have already been awarded grants and. thus. will not affect the increase these projects will receive.
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