Bob Schaffer: “I campaigned on virtually one single issue--balancing the budget.”

It is the fundamental right and obligation of parents to direct the education and upbringing of their children.

I have become deeply convinced of the value of parental involvement in education.

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.

You can't have all of this change that has been developed in the states or all of the reluctance to change that has been developed in other states and say that this is somehow one-size-fits-all.