Mark Hatfield said "I want to just make a few comments regarding the Goals 2000. I want to thank my colleagues on the Labor Committee for accepting my legislation to establish a seventh national education goal encouraging the involvement of parents and families in education. To borrow a page from Abraham Lincoln: Without the support of parents our schools cannot succeed. With it, they cannot fail. Without parental involvement, the six national education goals will not be attained by the year 2000. The national PTA and the Oregon PTA have my highest praise for helping to provide grassroots support for this measure all across the country. Again I thank the leadership of the committee for accepting this new national education goal." @ PoliticalQuotes.com

On the recordFebruary 3, 1994

I want to just make a few comments regarding the Goals 2000. I want to thank my colleagues on the Labor Committee for accepting my legislation to establish a seventh national education goal encouraging the involvement of parents and families in education. To borrow a page from Abraham Lincoln: Without the support of parents our schools cannot succeed. With it, they cannot fail. Without parental involvement, the six national education goals will not be attained by the year 2000. The national PTA and the Oregon PTA have my highest praise for helping to provide grassroots support for this measure all across the country. Again I thank the leadership of the committee for accepting this new national education goal.

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Mark Hatfield

Oregon

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Editor's note · Context

The speaker discusses the importance of parental involvement in education and the establishment of a new national education goal.

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