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James M. Jeffords: “I have been in the Congress 30 years now and this is the worst education crisis this Nation has seen in that 30 years. I…”

On the recordJanuary 16, 2003
I have been in the Congress 30 years now and this is the worst education crisis this Nation has seen in that 30 years. I should have known this was coming because I was the chairman of the education committee when it was introduced. I realized, as we started that it was going to be tough. We gave the tests out and did a model on it and found out every school in America, I think, failed to pass it. Then I asked them who was going to pay for the cost of the test, to find out how bad you were. They said: Oh, that will be up to the schools. I think I finally won a battle and shamed them into thinking that maybe at least they ought to pay for the tests that were going to prove how bad they were, and they agreed to do that.
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Discussing the education crisis and funding for education programs during a Senate floor debate.

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