Political Quotes

“The other people that really do get excited are the school officials at the local level, because under the bureaucratic model, the dollars that come from the Treasury come with strings attached saying, ``you are getting a dollar and you will spend it this way. And, as a matter of fact, we are going to monitor you to make sure you spend it the way we want you to spend it. When we send you the money, we are going to require you to report back to us that you spent it exactly the way that we mandated that you do, and because we don't really trust you, we will send in auditors on a periodic basis to audit your reports, because we don't trust you are going to tell us exactly the truth.'' So you get this whole bureaucracy in here that does nothing, that totally does not consider the child. With this model, local officials, they have got an accountability, but they have only got it to the taxpayer, their local taxpayer, in that they have to convince a local taxpayer that says, ``For our school or district or our kids, this is what we want to do. Would you please support us?''”