Sherrod Brown said "in October of every election year the Republican leadership says they support public education. The other 11 months they try to dismantle the Department of Education, they try to cut Head Start and school lunches, they try to weaken the student loan program. Now, for the month before the election, Republicans reluctantly say they want to better fund public education. But the issue is this: Should we adopt the Republican plan, which is a blank check to school administrators, which will mean more money in bureaucracy, more money in central offices, more money wasted in school districts, or do we adopt the democratic plan to put 100,000 teachers in the classroom? Mr. Speaker, we should support the democratic plan. It means more modern schools, it means more teachers, and it means smaller class size. It simply makes sense." @ PoliticalQuotes.com

On the recordOctober 14, 1998

in October of every election year the Republican leadership says they support public education. The other 11 months they try to dismantle the Department of Education, they try to cut Head Start and school lunches, they try to weaken the student loan program. Now, for the month before the election, Republicans reluctantly say they want to better fund public education. But the issue is this: Should we adopt the Republican plan, which is a blank check to school administrators, which will mean more money in bureaucracy, more money in central offices, more money wasted in school districts, or do we adopt the democratic plan to put 100,000 teachers in the classroom? Mr. Speaker, we should support the democratic plan. It means more modern schools, it means more teachers, and it means smaller class size. It simply makes sense.

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Sherrod Brown

Democratic · Ohio

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Editor's note · Context

Discussing education funding and contrasting Republican and Democratic education plans.

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