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On the recordSeptember 17, 1998
It is not just in Colorado, it is not in Michigan, it is in New York, it is in Cleveland, it is in Milwaukee, it is in Georgia, it is in L.A., it is in San Jose. We have been there. We have been in Iowa. You know we have been around the country and the story is always the same. The message comes back and says, it is bureaucratic. You notice that almost this whole dialogue was between the school administrator and Washington. The dialogue that is most important which is between the school administrator and the parent, who is paying for the taxes, gets lost in the process. We have also identified that when we go through this process of taking that tax dollar and then you and I going through this exchange of, I got the money, you get it, you send it to me, I verify, you send in reports, I audit, that when you go through that whole process, we lose about 30 to 40 cents of every educational dollar that came from that taxpayer, we lose 30 to 40 cents in the work that you do in your local school district, and the work that bureaucrats need to do here in Washington.
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Pete Hoekstra
Michigan

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Discussing the inefficiencies in the education funding process and its impact on local schools.

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