Newt Gingrich: “If my colleagues think the most effective way to help education is to have 31 different Washington bureaucracies with 31…”

“If my colleagues think the most effective way to help education is to have 31 different Washington bureaucracies with 31 different sets of regulations, 31 different auditors, 31 different sets of red tape, reports and forms, so that school districts back home fill out forms and have to keep track that they spend this dollar only in this box and this dollar only in this box, and they actually have to spend time recording everything they are doing, writing and filing reports; if my colleagues think that Washington is the center of America's education future and that bureaucracy is the answer to learning, then you should note ``no.'' What this bill does is very daring. This bill says, real learning occurs when the local teacher, the local student, the local parent, and the local school board, and the local classroom make a decision. This bill, block grants $2,700,000,000 to the States to allow the local teacher to have a decisive impact and the local parents to have a decisive impact.”