Political Quotes

“I am here today to speak in opposition to the Rohrabacher amendment. It is interesting that my colleague who often times bemoans Federal mandates as burdensome and intrusive, would create a huge bureaucracy for our Nations schools. Rather than focusing energy and resources for title I programs, my colleague asks school districts to become Federal immigration investigators and data collectors. It would be wrong to use our school systems as immigration police for the Federal Government. Equally important, we must remember that the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that school districts may not gather citizenship information from their student population. I can't imagine that parents and teachers want to divert school districts' resources from students to downtown bureaucracies. In southern California, which has a large title I population, our school districts are working valiantly to get their students, teachers, classrooms, and schools back together following our devastating earthquake. They need support as educators, not as investigators and bureaucrats. Please allow public schools to do the huge task that is before them: provide education that is challenging and enriching to all of our children. Vote ``no'' on the Rohrabacher amendment.”