Bob Schaffer: “One way to fight is through organizations like CAWG/CWAC and I encourage them to join and participate.”

It is the fundamental right and obligation of parents to direct the education and upbringing of their children.

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.

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

These broad strategies enjoy general bipartisan consensus.