Timothy Roemer: “It has been said that, quote, ``Our children are our message to the future that we may never see.'' We should not be…”

“It has been said that, quote, ``Our children are our message to the future that we may never see.'' We should not be arguing so much about this spending level or that spending level rather than the priority of working in a bipartisan way to help in education for our children, to help the quality of teachers, which is one of the most important issues we face. The gentleman from Florida (Mr. Davis) and I have a bill in that would help bring more teachers into the teaching profession that is nowhere to be found on the floor today, to try to help designate smaller class size, local control but smaller class size so that teachers are not overwhelmed with 26 kids but may have 16, 17 or 18 kids to try to again give local control over targeted resources in title I to help the most vulnerable kids. I offered an amendment a year ago that got 39 Republican votes to increase funds for title I. Where is that bill today? Where is that money to help kids today? Our children are our message to the future.”