John Boehner: “This amendment is a sad attempt to return to the days of spending billions and billions of dollars and getting nothing…”

“This amendment is a sad attempt to return to the days of spending billions and billions of dollars and getting nothing in return. Since 1965, the Federal Government has spent over $300 billion in K through 12 education programs, and what have the results been? Zero. Nothing. And we worked in a bipartisan way on both sides of the aisle to bring real accountability to our schools to ensure that no child was left behind, and the agreement we made was that we would provide sufficient funding to put this into effect and we have. We can look at the $1.2 billion increase in title I two years ago, the $1.3 billion increase last year, the $666 million increase this year.”