Phillips to Address House Panel: Superintendent Returns to Stress Funding Needs Due to Military Growth
Posted on: Tuesday, 21 March 2006, 06:00 CST
By Harry Franklin, Columbus Ledger-Enquirer, Ga.
Mar. 21--Muscogee County Schools Superintendent John A. Phillips Jr. will return to Washington, D.C., next week to address a second U.S. House subcommittee about school districts' need for federal funds.
The funds Phillips is seeking would help communities near military installations with construction needs, stemming from growth because of the Base Realignment and Closure Commission decisions.
Phillips will have four minutes on March 30 to state his case before the House Appropriations Committee's Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies. He is to speak at 10 a.m.
The superintendent spoke before the Appropriations Committee's Subcommittee on Military Quality of Life & Veterans Affairs on March 1. His comments from both appearances will be published in the Congressional Record.
Planning to accompany Phillips are Deputy Superintendent Robin Pennock; Myles Caggins, chief operations and facilities officer; Harris County Schools Superintendent Susan Andrews; Lee County, Ala., Superintendent John Painter; and superintendents or their representatives from The Seven Rivers Coalition, a group of school systems across the country that expect heavy impact from BRAC, the return of U.S. forces from Europe and other changes in the military.
Phillips helped organize the coalition to work as a unit to seek federal dollars to help build facilities to accommodate military-connected children moving into the school districts in the next four or five years. Those other coalition districts are near Fort Riley and Fort Carson, Kan.; Fort Lee, Va.; Fort Carson, Colo.; Fort Sill, Okla.; Fort Leonard Wood, Mo.; and Fort Bliss, Texas.
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