Political Quotes

“When we are dealing with the funnel, starting with the Federal bureaucracy and running through the Department of Education, running through the States, running through the State Department of Education, what happens is we end up focusing more on the process, the bureaucratic process, than we do on the child at the end of the process and making sure that that child gets the results. If you identify a higher number of kids as having disabilities with learning, you get more money. So you actually create sometimes an incentive to label kids in certain ways. And if you label them in certain ways, you get more money, and if you label them in different ways, you get less money. You go through that whole process, and at the end of the day you spend so much time and energy on the process, the forms, the rules and the regulations, you lose sight of the child at the end of the process, and the tax credit model is very, very simple.”