Political Quotes

“I think I understood the gentlewoman correctly, and if I did, it was a total misinterpretation of the language that is in this bill. I thought she said that this legislation undermines the local school district's ability to teach our children. This legislation does positively just the opposite. This legislation gives that local school district the opportunity to determine how they transition a student. Instead of Washington, D.C. saying for all these years that there is only one way to do it, it took us 10 years to ever get the 25 percent. The gentleman from Texas was able to move that legislation. He is no longer a member of the Congress, he later became a mayor. But nevertheless, it took us all that time just to get people to understand that there is more than one way, there is more than one way in order to transition students. Our whole goal is to make sure there is a quality education for every child. I want to make one other statement. We are not talking about Hispanic legislation today. Let us get that in our minds and keep it there. We are talking about 100-and-some languages in the city of Chicago, we are talking about 100-and-some languages in Virginia, right across the river. That is what we are talking about. So let us try to think about what is in the best interests of getting a quality education to every child. And who knows better than anybody? The local school district.”