Chaka Fattah: “Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Let me first commend the Chairman for the funding of the legislation, for The Second Chance…”

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.

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