Political Quotes

“No question about. The minority and the former majority and the President were very much opposed to flexibility. As I indicated, when it became that successful for those who undertook that opportunity or took advantage of that opportunity, the President then, of course, got all sorts of heat from 50 governors, and then we were able to move that. What we also said from our side is not that we even want to do that, but we want to also give them the Student Results Act so they have no trouble commingling money to make programs work. When we have a thousand programs, in this case, 700 and some programs, the amount of money each program gets is so small that we cannot do anything worthwhile with it, but if we try to commingle any of it, as I said earlier, we are in trouble with the auditors. So we say in the Straight As, we can commingle those dollars, all you have to do is prove to us that you can make sure every child improves academically. Now, I have been told by some States, well, we have enough flexibility. We know what they are saying. They are basically saying we are just happy to take your money. You do not ask us for anything in return. We just take your money, and we do the same thing over and over again. We do not have a new idea or a creative idea in our heads, so we will just go on taking the money from the taxpayers, from the Federal Government, because we do not require quality. We do not require anything.”