Eva M. Clayton: “where one stands is what one does and not what one says. The opposition says we are supporting a good public school.…”

“where one stands is what one does and not what one says. The opposition says we are supporting a good public school. What we have heard is a problem of public schools. The solution we have is to give 2,000 students an opportunity to live. Where are the 76,000 students that need that help? We need to find ways to improve the school for the majority and not hold up the false pretense of choice. This is not about choice. I am for choice. This is not anti-parochial school. I am a product of a parochial school. One needs not to say this is about having income that they can go to private school or not. Parochial school gives opportunity to disadvantaged schools. That is how I got through parochial school. We do not take away the needed resources to make the school work. It is not working. But they are going to ensure that it does not work. Yes, we wish we had open choice here that anyone could go to any public school. That is not true. We must improve the school. The only way to do that is to support the Moran bill and defeat the House bill.”