07/25/2012
https://www.congress.gov...
"A failing school is like a school on fire. You don't run the firefighting through a bureaucracy in Washington."
"I would trade everything, all the other policies we talk about, all the other government--what we do in our tax code, everything, if I knew that every poor kid in America had a shot at great early chi..."
"The whole enterprise has been dead in the cradle, and I would really like to see that revived."
"I want to see curriculum expanded. It contracted because of the testing requirements."