Bob Schaffer: “And we are going to start out small with the proposal just to prove that it works first, before we move further. As we…”

“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 out a very bold and ambitious plan for American schools. He campaigned on it, and once he got elected it was the first order of business of his administration. His goal was to and is to improve American education and reduce the achievement gap that exists between underserved children, poor children, minority children, and those who are of more robust financial means. He proposed accomplishing this through accountability, through more school choice, and through flexibility, and I regret to say that the Congress really denied the President two of those three objectives in the education bill that the President proposed. All we passed was the accountability, or the national testing provisions. The President is committed to continue fighting and moving forward on the school choice components of his education vision. This tax credit proposal is really the next step in accomplishing that for the President, so I am grateful for his passion and commitment to these children in America. I am grateful for his commitment to the education tax credit proposal that we have developed.”