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On the recordOctober 23, 1997
You bring up a couple of good points. The President has not involved parents, teachers, administrators, governors, as a matter of fact, the President has not even involved Congress. We are going to embark on national testing and it is going to be one branch of government, a few elitist bureaucrats who have developed a test for all of our kids. And we are not even a part of that process.
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Pete Hoekstra
Michigan

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Criticizing the lack of involvement from various stakeholders in national testing initiatives.

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