George Miller: “It would be one thing if what we were considering was a well-thought-out proposal about the reform of one of these…”

“It would be one thing if what we were considering was a well-thought-out proposal about the reform of one of these programs, if we were trying to better target the money, if we were trying to put it into a reducing the class size where we have students who are educationally handicapped or economically disadvantaged, some of the intensive title I. It would be different if we were asking people to refocus on a path that we thought would bring these young people a better education. But this is simply the crass withdrawal of resources, and the gentleman from New York is so right. We have in the private sector, in the nonprofit sector, and in the public sector under the leadership of Presidents of both parties, we have tried to continue to develop the means by which we can improve the Nation's schools for all of our students, for those going to college and for those who are going to work and maybe to continuing education in connection with their employment. But this is the first time where we just see the radical withdrawal of resources and say that is it, you take care of it, but with less resources.”