On the recordFebruary 2, 1994
Nobody is satisfied with what is happening in education. That is unquestionably the case. We are all very concerned that as a Nation our children are not able to compete in the international economy or the global marketplace. But the way you would address that is not to penalize the system. The way you address that is by giving more autonomy to your local schools, teachers, and parents to develop and educate the children in a manner which will reach the goals we have outlined. You give them the assessment standards necessary to accomplish that and to test themselves. You do not tell them how to do the methodology of teaching. You tell them the outcome of what it should be. I would suggest what the efforts should be to allow them to make their own assessment whether their children are being educated well and competitively. But this bill does not do that. This bill does just the opposite.
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