Congressional Digest

Congressional Digest August 1999 No. 8 Vol. 78
Honorable Bill Goodling

The Federal Role in Education

1999-2000 Policy Debate Topic

Honorable Bill Goodling

United States Representative, Pennsylvania, Republican

Representative Goodling, of the Nineteenth District of Pennsylvania,was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1974.He was a public school teacher and administrator from 1952 to1974, and served as President of the Dallastown, Pennsylvania,School Board from 1966 to 1967. He is Chairman of the Committeeon Education and the Workforce and a member of the InternationalRelations Committee. The following statement is from a May 19,1999, press release in reaction to the President’s proposed educationreforms.The goals of the Secretary of Education are laudable. I agreewith his goals of improving academic achievement, increasing studentdiscipline, ending social promotion, and ensuring that all…

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