Bob Schaffer: “That is right. And before I get to this, I will also add to that, what these failed audits represent is money failing to…”

“That is right. And before I get to this, I will also add to that, what these failed audits represent is money failing to get to children in American schools. That is what matters the most. Anyway, here is what he says today, the Secretary of Education, in his speech to the National Press Club: ``We need to focus on what we like to call the three R's over at the Department of Education.'' You would think it would be reading, writing, and arithmetic like it is everywhere else in America. No, the three R's over at the Department of Education is relationships, resilience, and readiness. That is what the emphasis is over at the Department of Education. Now, relationships, resilience and readiness are important things. I have no doubt about that. But in a Nation that squanders and wastes as much money as it does by giving it to the U.S. Department of Education and allowing that agency to get by without the ability to balance its books and the inability to get those precious dollars to children and a Nation that is lagging behind our international competitors in math and science, that is not right.”