Political Quotes

“In the five previous years, including two Presidents, the Republicans have put an increase of 48.2 percent in education funding K through 12, or 8.2 percent per year. In the 5 years before that, when the Democrats were in charge of the Congress under two Presidents at that time, the total was 32.9 percent or 6 percent a year, a lesser percentage than the Republicans have been putting in, in the last 5 years. There are a lot of reasons for this: A President who cares about education; a Congress which cares about education; both parties which care about education, but we need to be very careful in saying who is slighting education because the last 5 years have been the highest increases in K through 12 education in the history of the Congress of the United States.”