Bob Schaffer: “Clearly, Mr. Speaker, agriculture is integral to our economy and should not be ignored or 'written off.'”

This is the greatest environment for school reform I have seen in my career in here, in 38 years on this committee, and we should be taking advantage of it.

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

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.

We are turning underperforming schools upside down.