"You are spending taxpayer dollars, not making a Federal investment. Let us make that clear."
"It is clear that the Federal Government failed. We failed to adequately monitor nearly $190 billion that Congress allocated to help schools reopen and students recover from the pandemic."
"The School Relief Fund, known as the Elementary and Secondary School Relief, ESSER, Fund, was implemented without sufficient reporting requirements--shame on us--nor parameters for appropriate uses."
"the Department of Education does not seem to be focusing on this. Instead, it seems to be spending all its time pursuing radical, far-left agenda items, such as college loan forgiveness."
"I do not think those priorities are as focused on the K-12 challenges that we are facing"
"isn't it a transfer of debt from the people who took it out to people who did not take out the debt?"
"We need to get back to getting the politics out of school and getting back to reading, writing and arithmetic."
"Equity lowers the bar for the sake of equivalence rather than raising the bar for the sake of excellence."
"Federal COVID-19 pandemic relief funds that were appropriated by Congress are being used to support the teaching of radical ideologies instead of the actual curriculum."
"I am very concerned, not only from the chronic absenteeism but from other pandemic effects in schools, that we have a culture problem in schools."
"We have a duty as Members of Congress, not only to represent our constituents but also to conduct oversight of Federal spending programs."