President Nixon's budget cutters plan to slash federal aid to education by about 10% (TIME, Jan. 15). This week, after three years of research and testimony, the Senate's Select Committee on Equal Educational Opportunity is demanding a different course of action. It says that federal spending on public elementary and secondary schoolsnow $3.5 billion a year-should be increased to $7.2 billion.
During Nixon's first Administration, said the committee, the federal share in operating public schools actually declined to 8%. The committee called for Congress to appropriate $1.5 billion a year to pay for remedial reading and math courses. It recommended another...
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