Clinton Announces $128 Million For IT Teacher-Training

The funds will translate into 122 three-year grants to teacher-training colleges throughout the country, he said. "With rising student enrollment and teacher retirements, America will need more than two million new teachers over the next ten years," Clinton said in his weekly radio address. "We have to make sure every one of them can use a computer to help students meet high standards."

He took the opportunity to attack the Republican-controlled Congress for giving what he regarded as insufficient weight to spending on education, in its discussion of the budget for fiscal year 2001. "In this time of unprecedented prosperity, there is no reason to short-change our children and our schools," Clinton said. "So I ask Congress again to pass a budget that reflects our values and puts education first ... If Congress sends me a budget that fails that test, I'll have to veto it," he said