Trent Franks

It lets the States make that decision. We tried to create the broadest possible latitude for the States and the local governments there to do that. Certainly if we look at, and there is a lot of criticism that Washington no longer cares…

We have introduced the Children's Hope Act...to the schools of their parents' choice.

It does not, unless the home school would have some type of satellite classroom setting, and I would hope and look for the day that it would. Because, again, there is no one that has a higher opinion and a greater respect for the home…

I find it ironic that this body is essentially the school district for the Washington, D.C. schools. Perhaps the nomenclature is a little different, but the reality is we are in charge of trying to make sure that the Washington school…

I am convinced they are just ready to pull their hair out because they could not deal with these complex mandates we put on them from the Federal Government. I think there is a bigger issue here, and that is sometimes the Federal…

That is pointed out very clearly in the year 2000 where only 52 percent of staff employees in public schools were teachers, about half; and many of them I am convinced that were not teachers would certainly have wanted the money to go…

That is correct, and of course, that is the voluntary aspect of it, which, as you mentioned, is vitally important; but it also has engaged the parents. One of the things that we are seeing is a decided increase in Arizona among those…

Approximately $100 million has gone to the private scholarship groups and approximately 120 million additional dollars have gone into the public school setting.

I will have to say that my first response would be that among those 21,000 children who have received scholarships, it is almost impossible to relate the wonderful anecdotal stories that you get. Parents come to me and say, my child was…