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

These broad strategies enjoy general bipartisan consensus.

the expectation level of accountability and the immediacy of a response is far quicker, and greater, and more precise, and more meaningful when we move authority actually away from Washington and back to the neighborhood.

It is more than a win-win situation. Every dollar that the government spends today or that every taxpayer spends today through their Federal Government gets filtered through this bureaucratic process. In doing so, every dollar does not…

If you once again take a look at the bureaucratic model of getting taxpayers' cash to children, this system really serves no one well. It really creates a nightmare for public school teachers, for public school administrators. What we want…