Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, we are here to discuss very important legislation, namely Head Start. For 20 years I sat as a minority member in the Committee on Education and the Workforce, always cautioning my colleagues to think in terms of quality rather than in terms of quantity. But each year we would increase the number who participated and paid little attention to the quality of the program. Of the first four studies that came out on Head Start, three of them indicated that there not only was not a Head Start but there was not even an even start. The fourth study was done in a college community where, as a matter of fact, there were some positive results, primarily because the college students became mentors to those children so that those children had someone, some adult, helping them to become reading ready and ready for school. Now, there was so much hype around the program, as was chapter 1, that it was very, very difficult to get anyone to consider quality. It did not matter whether it was a Democrat administration or a Republican administration, no one paid any attention to quality.”