George Miller: “I say one of the Hopkins' programs, again one of the successes they have is they now have parents coming to the school…”

“I say one of the Hopkins' programs, again one of the successes they have is they now have parents coming to the school, participating in their education. If they work, the parents are coming to the school, dropping their children off, spending time there, and a novel idea, they are serving them coffee so they can hang around and talk to the teachers. The point of the matter is that these programs, in fact, work, and that is where we ought to be putting the dollars, and for those school districts that are turned off by the notion that they might have to reform the whole school, then they should go elsewhere and look for dollars. In my area, in the San Francisco Bay area, the funding now to try to replicate this program is being picked up by industry who are announcing for the first time that they can improve the schools by an investment by the private sector in these very same programs. I mean, that is the kind of credibility we have in terms of the expansion and the workability of these programs.”