Frank Pallone: “I had some interesting statistics about school conditions by State... in my home State of New Jersey, the share of…”

“I had some interesting statistics about school conditions by State... in my home State of New Jersey, the share of schools with at least one building in need... is 19.1 percent. In Connecticut, it is 30 percent. In New York, it is 32.8 percent. In North Carolina, it is 36.1 percent. Then it is even higher, if you look at the number of schools with one unsatisfactory environmental condition... For New Jersey, it is 46 percent. For North Carolina, it is 58 percent; Connecticut, 60 percent. Probably the worst example right now is the District of Columbia... the schools are actually not open in the District of Columbia because... a judge... ruled... that the schools were in such bad condition physically that it was unsafe to open them until they did the repairs.”