George Miller: “I do not understand what it is about the current system that is not working or not allowing for the number of charter…”

“I do not understand what it is about the current system that is not working or not allowing for the number of charter schools that we want or the progression of charter schools that we want. My State, the State of the gentleman from California, has a limit of 100. I think they have looked the other way and breached that already and there are maybe over 110 schools, but the statute is still 100. But I do not understand why we are insisting on some level of growth in charter schools if the States make in their determination that they want to stage it in another fashion. I can appreciate that a concern might be that there are those who do not like charter schools who would get a limitation put on the number of charter schools or the growth rate of charter schools at the State level, and I think that would be wrong. But I do not know that we should be telling the State how fast to grow charter schools.”