Chaka Fattah: “I am all for returning to the time in which Congress would exert some authority in these matters.”

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

We at one point had a lot of back and forth.

We still have a need, as the President has laid out, to return the Nation to being the number-one nation in the world producing college-educated adults.

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.