Political Quotes

“the other body yesterday by a vote of 86 to 14 handed out a repudiation of the extremist cuts in education that have been promoted by the Republicans in this House. Many schools are only a few weeks from notifying teachers that they will not be rehired next year. Local and State governments will have to eliminate needed education programs, or they are going to have to raise the property taxes on people who are already overtaxed, who are business owners or homeowners. The 103d Congress was the education Congress. It passed Goals 2000, national service, school-to-work funding for students who are not going to college but need to be headed into a job. The 104th Congress now wants to cut those programs, along with title I, summer youth jobs, dislocated workers, Head Start, drug-free schools. It was the robber barons of the 1800's that did not want to fund education for the children of their workers, so the public funded education. Now the new robber barons of this generation want to take the public investment out of public schools. We should not let them.”