May 22, 2002
What you see here in the United States now through the bureaucratic model is the schools that are the worst failures, they get more cash. In fact the worse they do the more money they get, it seems like. This is a terrible model. The…
Bob Schaffer
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Bob Schaffer is a former U.S. Congressman who represented Colorado's 4th congressional district from 1997 to 2003. A member of the Republican Party, Schaffer was known for his strong advocacy of national defense, particularly in support of a national missile defense system. He also took firm stances on social issues, including opposition to the sale of fetal tissue from abortions. Schaffer has been involved in various political and educational initiatives following his congressional career, including serving as the president of the Colorado Community College System.
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May 22, 2002
The proof is right here in Arizona. There are 6 States that have enacted tax credit plans that are similar to what we have proposed for the whole country, and they are tax credits on State taxes that taxpayers pay in those States. This is…
May 22, 2002
In the current education model, the bureaucratic model here that is represented in this poster, accountability is really achieved on a sampling basis. The Treasury Department tries to make sure the Department of Education is spending its…
May 22, 2002
Here is the proposal right here, the draft resolution. We expect to introduce this in the first, maybe the second week of June when we return from our Memorial Day district work period. There is quite a lot of interest in this legislation…
May 22, 2002
It underscores the contention we have that we bring to this debate and, that is, that Americans will contribute more and they are willing to invest more in America's education system if they are convinced and assured that there will be…
May 22, 2002
It is late here in Washington, but it is not too late to talk about children, and school children, to be even more specific about it. This is an important issue and an important topic. Education is one of the subject matters that I have…
May 22, 2002
Thirty-two million new dollars in the State of Arizona as this program got up and running between 1998 and 2000. There are more than 30 scholarship organizations that sprung up as a result of this tax credit bill, and those scholarship…
May 22, 2002
Because these people who are in the business of deception where their only intent and purpose in some of these business transactions is to deceive and falsify the true picture of business activity, they are not business leaders; they are…
May 22, 2002
The national testing and the new accountability measures in and of themselves, and standing alone, cannot reform schools. They were never proposed or it was never promised that that would be the case. These are diagnostic tools that are…
May 15, 2002
Right. If we think of this from the administrator's perspective, the guy that runs this school, the principal, this principal, in order to get money for the child because the principals care about the kids. There is no doubt about that in…
May 15, 2002
I was at the mall this weekend with my family and someone stopped me and said they had seen us a couple of weeks ago having the same discussion on education tax credits. She remembered this chart because I was talking about the politics…
May 15, 2002
we have done the research, we have done the analysis. Sure, it would be great to have a bigger tax credit and maybe some day we will, but initially we have to start out small. There is a cost to government, there is no doubt about that…