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Beyond City Limits
by R. W.
• Secondary schools not wanting to host the Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps could lose core federal funding, if U.S. Sen. John Cornyn gets his way. The Texas Republican has tabled an amendment to House Resolution 1585, the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2008. Under this, the secretary of defense would get to decide whether local education agencies, or parts of the agencies, can stop the JROTC from setting up a unit at their secondary schools or prevent students from enrolling with a unit at another school. The local education agency would not even have to have a written policy, or even have actively resisted the establishment of a unit, to have the cash withheld. This would remove not just Department of Education funding but effectively all federal cash, including homeland security funds. According to the state Legislative Budget Board, Department of Homeland Security grants to the Texas Education Agency were worth $343 million in 2006 alone and included cash for natural disasters.
— R. W.
Austin Chronicle.
2007-07-27
http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/story?oid=oid%3A507503
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