Bob Schaffer: “I regarded it as the most important work in public policy.”

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.

Granting more freedom from federal mandates of--federal mandates of NCLB--does not mean lowering the bar for any child.

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.

Just giving parents the opportunity to choose empowers them in a way that is helpful.