Chaka Fattah: “It is unfortunate that we need to have a Sandy Hook circumstance for States to supply this information.”

We have a program that works. It works in rural communities and urban communities.

Your leadership has been extraordinary.

That in the Nixon school finance commission, in its summary, it said that as long as we have a property-based funded school system, poor children in our country are going to disproportionately fail.

I authored it some 17 years ago. Millions of young people have benefited.