I think it's great that we're doing that. It's a feather in your cap that we were chosen to do it.

I appreciate you all being here and your excellent testimony.

But let's invest instead. Invest in high quality education that includes after school and extended learning.

So essentially you got an increase in the budget that you could use there in your school because you were one of the 20 schools?

I certainly didn't like that idea when I was going to school.

Thank you, thank you very much.

I don't know exactly how we work our way out of that.

Thank you for the opportunity to address you and talk about this important topic here today.

That's very nice. Thank you.

Thank you all for coming today. And we hope to have a good discussion here for the next hour and 25 minutes.

This is a hearing of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee.

We hope that we can use some of these insights in the reauthorization of No Child Left Behind.