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Bob Schaffer: “It does not matter whether we are in Minnesota, in Florida, in Colorado, or in California, the message never really…”

On the recordJune 6, 2000
It does not matter whether we are in Minnesota, in Florida, in Colorado, or in California, the message never really changes with respect to the Federal involvement in education; that is, we really appreciate all you folks back there in Washington caring about schools, but stop trying to run them from out there. You do not know the names of our kids. You do not even know the names of the schools that we have here much less know about the specific qualities of a neighborhood or the needs of a specific community.
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Bob Schaffer
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Discussing federal involvement in education during a subcommittee hearing.

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