I think it holds great opportunity. It is not a perfect system, and it is not going to fix it by itself. Tax credits are not going to reform the system. But when you can combine the tax credits with H.R. 1, more parental choice, cutting some of the rules and regulations out of the bureaucratic model so that, again, more than a dollar or more than 60 cents can make it into a local school, when we start combining all of those things and we can really get some dynamic or exciting form in all of our schools for all of our kids to make sure our kids are the best-educated kids in the world, that is the goal that we should have. Until we reach that goal and that objective, we should not stop working.
Pete Hoekstra: “I think it holds great opportunity. It is not a perfect system, and it is not going to fix it by itself. Tax credits are…”
On the recordMay 22, 2002
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Discussing education reform and the importance of tax credits and parental choice.
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