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Education President's Remarks to Editors on Tax Credits
Following is the text of remarks made by President Ronald Reagan to a group of religion editors at the White House on Sept. 14 and published in Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents.

I'm delighted that you're all here, and I know that you've been briefed and had a briefing on the subject of our legislation for tuition tax credits. And I expect to make another strike and try for a breakthrough in that today and hope to get it out of the Senate committee and onto the floor, because I'll be meeting very shortly with Senators Dole and Moynihan and Roth and Packwood on this particular subject.

October 6, 1982
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Education President's Remarks on Tax-Exempt Status
Following are the texts of two recent public comments by President Ronald Reagan on the subject of granting federal tax exemptions to schools that practice racial segregation.

The President's initial response came during a question-and-answer session with students at Providence-St. Mel High School in Chicago during a visit to that city on May 10:

May 26, 1982
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Education Education Apparently Spared Under Agreement on Budget
Budget reductions in federal education programs for the fiscal year 1983 seemed less likely last week, as the chairman of the Senate Budget Committee and President Ronald Reagan--after three months of intense debate--reached agreement on a new budget proposal.
Eileen White, May 12, 1982
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Education President Reagan Backs Constituional Change On Prayer in School
Proponents of President Reagan's proposal for a constitutional amendment to permit organized prayer in public schools--a practice which has been outlawed for 20 years--greeted the President's announcement of the plan at the White House last week with jubilant applause and promises of political support.
Eileen White, May 12, 1982
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Education Text of President Reagan's Address To the National Catholic

I am delighted to have this opportunity to be among leaders and educators in the Catholic community--a community of Americans who have done so much to bring sustenance and fulfillment to people around the world. I am grateful for your help in shaping American policy to reflect God's will--for your efforts to allow Americans to provide direct aid to the people of Poland-- and I look forward to further guidance from His Holiness Pope John Paul II during an audience with him in June.
April 21, 1982
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Education Reagan To Tell Catholic Group Of Plan for Tuition Tax Credit
After an intense six-month lobbying campaign in favor of tuition tax credits, the nation's Catholic school parents and educators expect the keynote speaker at their Chicago conference this week--President Ronald Reagan--to unveil his Administration's tax-credit proposal.
Eileen White, April 14, 1982
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Education The 1983 Education Budget
President Ronald Reagan's budget proposal for fiscal 1983 would reduce federal aid to education by one-third, from $14.9 billion in the current school year to $9.95 billion in the 1983-84 school year.

"We know these [budget cuts] will not be achieved without pain, but we must continue our efforts to restore the health of our economy," said Secretary of Education Terrel H. Bell in announcing the budget proposal.

February 17, 1982
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Education Democrats, Educators Critical Of Reagan's Program Tradeoff
President Ronald Reagan's sweeping proposal to exchange education, school lunch, and other programs with the states, which he described last week on national television, has drawn mixed reaction from members of Congress and association leaders.
Eileen White, February 2, 1982
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Education Opinion Rooseveltian Lessons for the Reagan Administration
Franklin D. Roosevelt's faith in education stands in stark contrast to Ronald Reagan's massive cuts in the federal education budget.
M. Charles Wallfisch, February 2, 1982
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Education Reagan's Address to Nation To Bring News of 1983 Education Budget Cuts
New budget cuts--which would bring reductions in federal education spending since 1981 to 35 percent--the elimination of school-lunch subsidies for middle-income children, and a plan to turn the Education Department (ed) into a foundation are among the proposals President Ronald Reagan is reportedly considering for inclusion in the fiscal 1983 federal budget.
Eileen White, January 12, 1982
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Education President Reagan Values Education Meese Proclaims
In his first public speech on education since joining the White House inner circle, Edwin Meese III, counselor to the President, assured some 4,000 California school administrators and board members that the Reagan Administration values education as "a national investment in the future of our country."
George Neill, December 21, 1981
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Education Reagan Pledges He Will Support Tax-Credit Bill
President Ronald Reagan delighted administrators of the nation's Catholic elementary and secondary schools last week by promising to initiate tuition tax-credit legislation "later in the 97th Congress."
George Neill, October 26, 1981
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