Political Quotes

“My argument is that we on the Federal level should have nothing to do with certification of teachers whatsoever. It is positively a State responsibility. I tried to explain earlier that you really have to have been a school administrator to understand that there are times when you positively cannot get a certified teacher. I would rather say qualified anyway than certified, because I can get some qualified teachers who may have a master's degree, but they do not have pedagogical training. If you have a resignation 2 weeks before school begins, you positively have to get the best possible person you can get into that classroom. You cannot steal a certified teacher some other place. You have to get the best person and that person may not have all of the necessary education credits in order to be properly certified by that State.”