Bob Schaffer: “This focus you mention on local control and local priorities really is the most attractive feature, I think, in an…”

The question is now, when we see all of the reform that is taking place, before you didn't know where your qualified teachers were, you wouldn't say where the distribution was, your graduation rate--any improvement made you AYP.

These broad strategies enjoy general bipartisan consensus.

We are turning underperforming schools upside down.

This is the greatest environment for school reform I have seen in my career in here, in 38 years on this committee, and we should be taking advantage of it.