Political Quotes

“I want to thank the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Woolsey) for yielding time. I also want to thank Chairman Miller, Ranking Member Kline, and Majority Leader Hoyer for working with my office in order to bring this important resolution to the floor today. Mr. Speaker, today, we have the chance to vote on a very important congressional resolution, congratulating Urban Prep Charter Academy for Young Men-Englewood Campus, which is the Nation's first all-male charter high school, for achieving a 100 percent college acceptance rate for all 107 members of its first graduating class of 2010. There have been over $4 million in grants and scholarships awarded to this one class, which is the first of its kind in the Nation. At a time when only 50 percent of African American males are graduating from high school in most large, urban, predominantly black school districts, the young graduates of Urban Prep are not only shattering the stereotypes that have surrounded the issue of black male dropouts, but they are also setting a standard and are establishing a model that we hope will be replicated in other school districts all around this Nation. The accomplishments that these students, teachers, administrators, and families of this esteemed high school, Urban Prep, have achieved are extremely important, not only to my district and to the African American community, but to the Nation at large.…”