George Miller: “Let me just say I think the gentleman from Illinois and the gentleman from Wisconsin have put it quite properly. We have…”

“Let me just say I think the gentleman from Illinois and the gentleman from Wisconsin have put it quite properly. We have spent, as the gentleman from Pennsylvania [Mr. Goodling] and I who sit on the committee, billions and billions of dollars in title I funds, and we have not exactly gotten the return that we think we should on that dollar. A number of these programs, not all of them, but a number of these programs are about the reorganization of those dollars where we get a better bang for the buck. The John Hopkins program comes in because schools invite them in, and they go into low-income schools, and they take that title I money, and they reorganize it along some management techniques, along the wise use of resources, they get the school headed off in the right direction, and the fact of the matter is they get kids, a much, much higher percentage of kids, reading at grade level. They did not do that because we told them to do that; they did that because the local school board could no longer face the parents with the results that they were getting. That is what these programs are about, and the fact of the matter is that these programs have research and pragmatic experience in districts, and there are thousands of districts and schools that are inviting these programs in because they work. So, if we are going to spend $150 million, we ought to, as stewards of the taxpayers' money, put it where we think we can get the best return on their investment.”