Political Quotes

“I get fed up when I hear the other side keep talking about pupil/teacher ratio, keep talking about building buildings, repairing building. For 20 years, 20 years, they had an opportunity to send 40 percent of the excess cost for special education to that school district and to every school district. They sent 6. If they would send 20, 40 percent, if they would send 40 percent of excess cost to special education to Washington, D.C., do they know what they would send them? Another $12 million. Put your money where your mandate was. You mandated 100 percent special ed. You do not send them the 40 percent. You were sending them 6 percent. We got it up to 9. That is a long, long way away. If they had an additional $11 million because you put your money where your mouth was for 20 years when you mandated special ed, they would have all the money in the world they need to deal with pupil/ teacher ratio, to improve the school buildings, to build new school buildings. So do not come here now 20 years later and somehow blame it on somebody else. It was you that passed the 100 percent mandate, and it was you that did not fund it. Now put your money where your mouth is.”