Elton Gallegly: “Providing a high quality education to our children is my highest priority.”

I did not have one individual on either side of the aisle say, no, Elton, I can't be a cosponsor. I don't think there's anytime in history that I've had as many people agree on--we can't get that many people to agree on what day of the…

As a parent of four and as someone who is a product of the city school system in Los Angeles, I am a strong supporter of public education. But one of the comments that she made was that these people were not participants in the…

I think we have come to the point where we cannot continue to chisel away and have a real bill. The people of California can no longer afford to provide a free public education to everyone. It has a denigrating effect on the citizens of…

Because it was in the bill that passed out of the committee, the full committee that we both serve on, by a vote of 23 to 10, but was changed by leadership prior to coming to the floor.