Frank Pallone: “It is interesting what the gentleman said about the quality of the schools when we were younger, because I went, my…”

“It is interesting what the gentleman said about the quality of the schools when we were younger, because I went, my school district, and where I still live in Long Branch, New Jersey, is an urban district and they have managed in my opinion over the years to keep up, if you will, by renovating the school and having good laboratories and facilities so that the science and math programs that you mentioned I believe are really still topnotch. But it has been at tremendous cost to the taxpayers. Their property taxes in the town are very high compared to a lot of the other school districts in my district, primarily because they have decided that they are going to invest that money. But it has been a cost to them because of property taxes. I know that when I decided to go to college and I ended up going to a private college after I had gone to public school from kindergarten to 12th grade, that one of the reasons that the college was interested in me is because they knew that the school system, that the public school that I went to had good science and math programs, and that was a major factor for my being able to get into that school.”