Jack Kingston: “I am certain it was when Jimmy Carter was President, and so let us just say thereabouts. But what is interesting, during…”

“I am certain it was when Jimmy Carter was President, and so let us just say thereabouts. But what is interesting, during that same period of time that we have had this absolute explosion in programs, which has also taken away the flexibility and freedom for the teacher to teach in her or his own classroom, what has also happened is the SAT scores have fallen from approximately 937 to about 910 points, if not more than that, and the interesting thing as you know, the SAT scores have been recalibrated, and 900 in 1975 would equal about a thousand today. So in reality the SAT scores have fallen more than 30 points, but to probably about a hundred despite all of this Federal Government help to States which has proven not to be help but hindrance.”