Political Quotes

“I rise very simply to indicate that this is not about choice, this is a bill about private school vouchers. This is an extension of a debate that we had in the Washington, D.C. budget earlier this year when the roofs are falling down in the D.C. schools and rather than fix the roof, the proposal was put forward to allow 2000 children out of 78,000 children to be able to leave the schools with private vouchers. We are committed to a strong public school system investing in technology for our children, making sure they can read and write, and that they are qualifying for the jobs of the future, every child, every neighborhood. This proposal allows a few children to take a disproportionate amount of dollars out of the public schools to allow for private school vouchers. It is the wrong way to go. I would very much like it if we took all of our energies together and focused them in the right direction, which is making sure every single child in America gets a quality education.”