Bob Schaffer: “It is truly unfortunate anyone finds such attributes offensive.”

These broad strategies enjoy general bipartisan consensus.

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.

It is a perspective that favors choice, local control, a professional transformation of the teaching craft, transparency, accountability, competitiveness, and marketplace entrepreneurship.

I have become deeply convinced of the value of parental involvement in education.