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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Jay: [QB] As the strutting but numbwitted person in the White House shows more of his true colors. -------- Bush budget plan would cut reading program By GREG TOPPO April 24, 2001 | WASHINGTON (AP) -- Reading Is Fundamental, but funding can be fickle. For 35 years, the RIF program has given millions of free paperback books to poor children in 50 states. But it stands to lose all of its federal money next year. President Bush's 2002 education budget cuts all funding for "inexpensive book distribution." Bush still champions literacy, and he is proposing a $5 billion, five-year plan to get all of the nation's students reading by third grade. Reading Is Fundamental supporters say that's what their program does best. "You ask the second-grade reading teachers and they'll say it's extremely effective," said Patricia Heck, a RIF coordinator in Mesa, Ariz. "It's really quite magical." In fact, former first lady Barbara Bush, the president's mother, is listed on the program's National Advisory Council. Laura Bush, herself a strong literacy advocate, is an adviser, too, according to the White House Internet site. Program officials say the loss of federal funds -- they total $23 million this year -- would take away about 70 percent of the budget. "The program is too important to this nation and to children at risk to discontinue," said William Trueheart, the program's president and CEO. He said volunteers serve about 5 million children, handing out nearly 15 million new books a year -- 200 million since the program began. The national organization provides about 75 percent of funding for most local chapters, but gives 100 percent of funding to programs for especially needy children, such as migrant workers and those in homeless shelters. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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