Bob Schaffer: “I really enjoyed the chance to discuss and act on issues similar to the ones you're considering today.”

The only individuals who can guarantee that these dollars are being spent efficiently are the ones who are closest to the children who are affected.

It is a perspective that favors choice, local control, a professional transformation of the teaching craft, transparency, accountability, competitiveness, and marketplace entrepreneurship.

Just giving parents the opportunity to choose empowers them in a way that is helpful.

The question is now, when we see all of the reform that is taking place, before you didn't know where your qualified teachers were, you wouldn't say where the distribution was, your graduation rate--any improvement made you AYP.