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On the recordJune 11, 2002
I mean when we are talking about what is the easiest and what is the fairest method for kids and for local taxpayers, this is the posture that clearly works. There is no bureaucracy, there is a lot of flexibility with how the money is spent to make sure that at the end of the day, what do we want? We want this American child to be the best educated child in the world. It does not mean that we do not want other kids and the rest of the world to be as educated as well as they are; we do. But at the end of the day, this kid cannot come in fifth, tenth, fifteenth, seventeenth, nineteenth like they are on some of the tests today on math and science and those types of things. Our goal and our objective is to have ours to be the best educated kids in the world.
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Pete Hoekstra
Michigan

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Discussing the challenges local school districts face in securing fair funding and the goal of improving education for American children.

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