Political Quotes

“Reclaiming my time, he has already developed the test, as near as I can see. He proposed it here on the floor of the House in his State of the Union address in January, and now they already have, as I have talked about earlier this night, item and test specifications for the voluntary national test, and we ought to talk about whether or not they are voluntary, for fourth grade reading and eighth grade mathematics, the report of the national test panel. So while that panel in Delaware included parents and teachers and local school administrators, and probably students from all over Delaware, and it took them three years to write what they felt was a good test, to make the model, and recognizing that States are, in fact, charged with educating their children, the President has done a one-size-fits-all, it is here, finished, done, he got it finished between January and October. By the way, it says we are not going to test whether or not you can do any math computations with a pen and pencil; we are going to give you a calculator for the whole exam.”