I am not going to--yes, I will make this accusation.

Many students came to the Chemawa school for a quality, and culturally relevant, education in a safe environment.

That is very disturbing to me as an educator and for somebody who is obviously very concerned about this.

I encourage my colleagues to avoid political distractions that would merely shift the focus away from the children...

My hope is that we can understand the root causes, if we can get there, of these persistent challenges.

Many students came to this school for a quality, culturally relevant education in a safe environment.

I encourage my colleagues that we do not shift away from the primary focus, which is the education of children.

The purpose of today's hearing should not be about assigning blame to any one person or administration.

If you had three things--real short, if you could--that you think this Committee could help you with in terms of correcting this.

We don't have decades.

I was absolutely appalled, being the guy that opened the World War II Memorial, when barricades had been rented or purchased and put up in an open air memorial to do nothing but harass the Nation's veterans that put their lives on the line.