George Miller

Outstanding charter schools are helping millions of students learn, grow and thrive.

Many exceptional charter schools have already blazed a trail for others to follow.

It is not an accident any longer.

These caps are often the consequence of legislative tradeoffs, representing political deal-making designed to appease special interests.

We know all of the politics--everyone sitting here know all of the politics that keep those schools failing for 30 and 40 years in plain sight.

They face overwhelming barriers to expansion, from arbitrary state caps to hostile state legislators.

Eighty-five to 90 percent of the kids in public schools today are languishing in failing schools--

An estimated 365,000 students are on charter school wait lists today.

Thank you very much for your participation.

Their success stories are proof that charter schools are an integral part of building a world-class American education system.

For people to suggest that somehow we can wait with these children who are entering school or in pre-K, and we can wait for a decade of change or two decades of change is to sentence those 60,000 students who entered that stadium to…

Having closed or not renewed about a dozen schools over 15 years of authorizing--and having the battle scars to prove it--I'm confident that each decision was made by focusing on what's best for students.

I think charter schools and a number of district schools have proven the fact that this exact population can excel.

In my 35 years in the Congress, the most difficult thing to do in education is replication of excellence or of success.

Business practices have been adjusted, and each market participant can adapt to a more responsible system that avoids coercion of appraisers and reduces the opportunity for fraud.

Thank you for the opportunity to testify before your committee and the opportunity to clarify my remarks regarding the NHHEAF Networks inability to bid for its own loans for servicing under the ECASLA program.

If the more 4,000 institutions currently in the FFEL program are happy with the program and wish to keep it, I think we should listen to their wishes.

I don't think anybody involved in education...cannot appreciate how serious of a decision this is.

I look at it as making America stronger.

the proposal to end the FFEL program and replace it with direct federal student lending will have negative consequences on students, it is fiscal madness and the alleged financial benefits to the federal government are likely illusionary.

I do think that we have an enormous responsibility to make sure that the bottom line for this is what loan program or programs will best serve the students and best serve the taxpayers of this country.

this investment we make in education probably returns more than any other investment that we make.

I always thought it was too expensive, and I was always stunned every year when George Bush's budget said, well, you know, here is the money on the table if you guys want to do something about it, and finally it happened.

President Obama's proposal to transfer $94 billion in lender subsidies to students merits your support.

I think I can persuade most of them, certainly in the state of California, that they can knit together the resources to do that and receive a first class education.