Judd Gregg: “They say they know so much more than the Governors, the boards of education, the principals, the superintendents, the…”

“They say they know so much more than the Governors, the boards of education, the principals, the superintendents, the teachers, and, most importantly, the parents. They say they can run the school systems from here in Washington. As I have said before, it is as if the folks on that side of the aisle want a string. They want to run a string out to every school system in America, every classroom in America, from the desks on the other side of the aisle. They want to have hundreds of thousands of strings running out, and they are going to pull the strings and tell America how to run their classrooms. It is an attitude which I cannot accept. It is an attitude which we have tried to avoid in this bill, by giving flexibility--subject to achievement, subject to accountability--to the local school districts.”