Frank Pallone: “I have often said education is the great equalizer in this country, and it has allowed for so many of us, whatever our…”

“I have often said education is the great equalizer in this country, and it has allowed for so many of us, whatever our gender or religious affiliation or party affiliation or socioeconomic status the ability to use our God-given talents in order to try to succeed. And it is a mystery to me that here we are at 9:20 at night, and for almost the last two years, or at least a year, have been trying to focus in on education, some very simple proposals that the President laid out last January, and that we want to try to have our children have some opportunity for some attention in schools, to reduce the class size, not just because of numbers. That is not what the issue is. You take the class size and you reduce that number in grades one through three from sometimes 22, 24, 26, up to 32, 36 students in a classroom today, down to 18, and you allow that teacher to have some individual time with each and every child.”