"Students with disabilities, this is one that we pay special attention to."
"If someone can make that much money off the back of students, that just shouldn't be allowed."
"Is that it? If States have a cap on the number of charter schools, that they would have a harder time of winning one of these awards?"
"There has never been this much funding in the Nation's schools before in our history."
"We will set a high bar, and States that hit it, that's great."
"Our goal would be to have every State to hit all 10 of those benchmarks."
"You need to know where your students are, you need to know how your teachers are doing."
"Well, let's open the door further. I would, both on this subcommittee, as Chair of the subcommittee, but also on the authorizing committee, we ought to be saying what we can do over the next few years..."
"It is much, much harder to build this thing up than it is to tear it down."
"I am sure you have some ideas of your own about changing that system--about providing incentives to kids early on so that they can keep up their grades and keep up the work, that they get scholarships..."
"Thank you, Senator Pryor."