Speaker. I am pleased to introduce with my colleague and ranking minority member of the Committee on Education and Labor. BILL GOODLING. a bill to strengthen the Migrant Education Program. I hope to have this legislation considered along with all other programs of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act which are due to expire in 1994. The changes proposed by this legislation will sharpen the focus of the program. directing more services to migrant youth who move as they or their families harvest our Nations crops. In offering this legislation. I hope to position the Migrant Education Program to be able to compete more effectively for the very scarce Federal dollars available for education programs. Between 1980 and 1993. the program has gone from being a fully funded program to one with less than 25 percent of full funding. In the process. the mobile child. who Is the most difficult to find and the most expensive to serve.
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