Political Quotes

“Compliance means you adhere to the rules, but it also means your focus has changed from where it needs to be, which is educating the child to complying with the rules. And the teachers and principals at the local levels want to focus on our kids. All these programs and all these rules and regulations move us away from where the gentleman and I started today when we started talking about parental choice. We talked about parental empowerment and recognizing that the tie between the parent and the child and the local school district is absolutely critical, and that when we put in funding schemes like we have in Michigan that say the money is no longer going to come from the local level and the people in the community, but it is going to come from these folks over here in Lansing, we weaken that.”