Political Quotes

“For 22 years, I tried to get 40 percent of excess spending back to the local districts as far as special ed is concerned. If the majority had done that for all these years, Los Angeles, for instance, would have been getting an extra 100 million dollars every year. Can one imagine what they could have done in school construction, what they could have done in class size reduction? Chicago would have gotten $76 million extra every year. New York City would have gotten $170 million extra every year. Imagine what they could have done. Again, I could not get them to move to get that 40 percent of excess funding back to those local districts, so their money would be freed to do just the things that we think now is our responsibility: Class size reduction; school construction. All the money would have been available, but they had to take their money for our mandate and so they could not do the kinds of things they should have been doing in relationship to class size reduction, in relationship to construction. Again, I am confused about where the administration stands on construction.”