On the recordJune 11, 2002
I come at this from the perspective of someone who my entire education was in the public school system, but more recent experience than that is my wife is a public school teacher in Phoenix, Arizona. She teaches kindergarten. I have two sisters, both of whom are teachers, both in the public school system in Arizona, and then I have a niece who is a teacher in the public school system in Tucson, Arizona. And so I come from a family that is pretty deeply steeped in public education. Of course to achieve any kind of reform, and you were just talking about how difficult it is to achieve reform, you have to kind of convince people to take a leap of faith, to try a new idea. As you pointed out, we in Arizona tried a new idea. We have tried education tax credits, and I think they have worked extremely well.
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