Political Quotes

“over the last few months we have been engaged in a process which we call Education at a Crossroads, visiting different parts of the country, visiting different school districts within my congressional district, getting feedback on the effectiveness, the quality, and the impact that Federal education programs have had. There has been some dispute about some of the findings that we may have received, but what we have been hearing consistently is that there is significant room for improvement in how the Washington establishment, how the Federal bureaucracy delivers programs to the classroom, how we help kids at the local level. A couple of weeks ago in Delaware, Bill Manning, the local superintendent of the Red Clay School District in Wilmington, DE, said he would rather see safe and drug free schools money go to academic programs of the district's choosing, asking for district flexibility. ``It is time to ask ourselves whether the time we take out of the classroom for drug awareness programs is time well spent,'' he said. He is looking for more flexibility to do for the kids in Wilmington, Delaware what they believe is most needed.”