Political Quotes

“I commend my colleague from Washington State who has been such a stalwart on this commonsense issue. If you were to ask anyone in the public whether it makes sense to have smaller class size so that our children can receive the attention they need from the teacher and have the opportunity to interact in the classroom and maximum opportunity to learn in the classroom, everyone would look at you and say: Well, of course, that ought to be a priority. We have been able to back up the commonsense nature of this ideal with numerous studies that have been talked about by my colleagues today about what has happened around the country and the difference smaller class size makes. I want to share with my colleagues what is happening in my great State of Michigan. I have a colleague, a former State senate colleague, Senator Joe Conroy, who is the Senator Murray of Michigan. For years he has been speaking about the importance of lowering the number of children in a classroom and how critical that is to teaching.”