The Safe and Drug Free Schools Program is one initiative. run in virtually every school district in the nation. working to fight that trend. However. the program after protracted debate over a 57 percent cut was finally level funded in last years Republican budget. and the bill we are debating today proposes to reduce funding for this program by again $25 million in fiscal year 1997. This means that in fiscal year 1997. the Safe and Drug Free Schools Program will be funded at a level below its allocation in fiscal year 1995. at a time when the need for such drug. alcohol and violence preventative programs are dramatically increasingl One other population of students who will be hurt by this legislation is immigrant children. Funding for bilingual and immigrant education programs is set to be reduced by 11 percent in this spending bill. Multiethnic communities and schools will be hit especially hard since these schools must continue providing such services with less Federal help. Investing in the education of these children is important.
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