Sam Gibbons: “today is Halloween, so let me begin with the first liberal horror story of the day. Our education liberals have come up…”

“today is Halloween, so let me begin with the first liberal horror story of the day. Our education liberals have come up with another expensive solution for our failing public school system. That is right. They want to use more of your taxpayer dollars to design and implement a national testing plan. While all parents, including all of us, want to monitor the progress of our children in school, we do not want Washington bureaucrats creating more redtape through a national testing plan. Let us tackle our national education problems by sending the resources and dollars where they will do some good, to the local school districts, down into classrooms, where teachers and parents can apply those resources to teaching children, not lining the pockets of Washington bureaucrats. It is easy as all that. I urge my colleagues to oppose the President's plan on national testing. This body should concentrate on increasing parental choice and involvement, not national testing.”