Joe Cunningham: “We are finally getting through to the press. Here is the Washington Post, the Washington Times, the Union. I talked to…”

“We are finally getting through to the press. Here is the Washington Post, the Washington Times, the Union. I talked to seven of the superintendents in most liberal schools in California, that is Los Angeles, San Francisco, Oakland, and they favored the block grant. What they would like us to do even is to take the money and not even go through the State but get it down to the local LEA, or the local school district, so they are in favor of this. It takes out that middle bureaucracy. What we did cut in all of those thousands of reports, we cut those out from the Federal Government, the personnel, the systems that have to operate it, to take away the dollars that we are actually trying to give. So we not only add dollars, we make it more cost effective so that there is more money. They don't have to spend it on those administration fees, on the extra people they have to hire to take care of their reports. They don't have to go through the reports and send them back here to Washington, DC. We happen to believe that Government works best closest to the people.”