Bob Schaffer: “the management model that the gentleman described, that has become emblematic of public schools, is something that…”

“the management model that the gentleman described, that has become emblematic of public schools, is something that really needs to be changed. This tax credit proposal perhaps in a small way can really help achieve that. Here is what I am talking about, specifically. The gentleman used really great language to describe what happens in schools, in schools today. That is, the administrators, the financial officers, and the business managers of America's schools have become proficient beggars to other governments. There is a whole inside language that exists in American education today, and we see this on the Committee on Education and the Workforce here, as Members who serve on that committee. But also certainly we see that throughout the country. There is this inside language and all this technology that is only understood by the people who are on the inside of public school finance. We have school board members who become very, very proficient at using the right words to appeal to other politicians at the State level and in State governments. They have their own code language that corresponds to requirements and rules that exist here in Washington. This works very nice within this little bureaucratic bubble, but it really alienates and abandons the rest of the community, in many cases, and certainly it alienates the children.”