Newt Gingrich: “I would be very excited to help establish a bipartisan task force on reforming public education. I would be very excited…”

“I would be very excited to help establish a bipartisan task force on reforming public education. I would be very excited to establish a special task force on public education for D.C. I would be very willing to establish a bipartisan task force to look at military dependent schools, which I am a product of. I would be very willing to work on a bipartisan basis to help Indian schools achieve national levels. Those are the three school systems, by the way, that are specifically Federal: military dependent schools, Indian schools, and the District of Columbia. We have the relationship to D.C. that a State legislature would have to local schools. Madam Speaker, I am very willing as a product of public schools, as somebody whose children went to public school, I have actually lived my career in a public school. I used to teach in a public high school. I am committed to public education and I will be glad to work on reform. But that is not what is here today.”