On the recordFebruary 4, 1994
I am a product of St. Thomas the Apostle, a Jesuit boys' school. I am very proud of the fact that my parents made this choice. However, they never felt, in making that choice, that public schools did not deserve their support or that they should have been subsidized by the Federal Government. And that is really what we are talking about here. There is a fundamental difference of view as to whether or not we ought to be in the business of funding a dual system of education, whether it is a pilot program in 1 district or in 10 or in 100. My view is this is fundamentally a bad idea, and bad ideas do not need to be demonstrated. I think this notion of taking $30 million to test something which we know is detrimental to our primary responsibility, public education, is simply a bad idea and needs no demonstration. Our primary responsibility is and must be to public education.
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