Chris Dodd: “What this amendment requires is that every child in a State have a comparable educational opportunity with other…”

“What this amendment requires is that every child in a State have a comparable educational opportunity with other children in that same State. Last evening, I cited the supreme court decision in the State of New Hampshire, which makes the case more eloquently than I could, saying that in the State of New Hampshire children, regardless of the community in which they are raised, ought to have an equal opportunity. I stress the word ``opportunity.'' I do not believe any of us has an obligation to guarantee any person in America success. That has never been the American way. What we have always believed, since the founding days of our Republic, is that equal opportunity has been the magnet which has drawn the world to our shores.”