Well, let me just suggest from this moment forward I would go on record as saying no group should receive a charter to start a school unless everybody associated with that charter has had a full FBI background check.

I would like to receive some testimony from some of the bankers, not at this meeting, Mr. Chairman, but perhaps in writing.

It is just not moving quickly enough for all of us, and so part of this meeting today is to grasp what is working.

Thank you all. As I said as you all sat down, I again just congratulate you for your really extraordinary, extraordinary efforts.

I mean, you can either pay for it up front, residential in school, or you can pay $50,000 a year for residence in prison.

We need to create venture capital funding.

To follow up on the facilities, do we have a comprehensive list of school buildings...

I will tell you from my political experience with the majority of independent, non-parochial public schools, the average of tuitions is about $15,000 to $20,000.

But you don't need to build equity. If you have a charter with 200 children and you have got $400,000 a year guaranteed to come in, what is preventing a bank or an entity from loaning you money to buy or lease or renovate a building?

Well, I would say the question for the community is, having been shown success which you all are showing against the odds, extraordinary success, how do we as a community reward your success.

I just want to say a general thank you for the extraordinary work that each of you has done against great odds.

Does anybody have an idea--maybe, Ms. Baker, you could testify on this because it seems like we could--one of the great accomplishments of this hearing, Mr. Chairman, would be if we could explore with you all, the experts, a streamlined…