Political Quotes

“This is not an issue of money. We are spending a tremendous amount on education, but we are spending a tremendous amount of it in the wrong place, and it is partly because parts of the No Child Left Behind, that never made it into law, was to give local school districts and States relief from the paperwork burden that sucks up valuable education dollars away from the kids and puts it into a bureaucracy either at the State capital or here in Washington. Like I said, and I think the gentleman agrees with me, the teachers, the principals, the administrators at the local level want to do what we are saying; they want to focus those dollars in the classroom. But they recognize that when they get as many mandates as they get from Washington, D.C., they have to have the piece of paper and the forms filled out; they have to dot the I's and cross the T's or they get in trouble.”