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

granting more freedom from federal mandates of--federal mandates of NCLB--does not mean lowering the bar for any child.

This chart to my right explains how Federal education funds get from a taxpayer to a student here at the bottom. It is funneled through all of these different agencies: The U.S. Treasury Department, the Congress, the U.S. Department of…

the expectation level of accountability and the immediacy of a response is far quicker, and greater, and more precise, and more meaningful when we move authority actually away from Washington and back to the neighborhood.

And we are going to start out small with the proposal just to prove that it works first, before we move further. As we draw to a close here in the next couple of minutes, I just want to commend our President. President George W. Bush laid…