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Joe Wilson: I trust the teachers and the principals and the school administrators in my hometown to come up with an integrated plan…

On the recordSeptember 18, 1998
I trust the teachers and the principals and the school administrators in my hometown to come up with an integrated plan of how we are going to educate our kids. We do not need stovepipes from Washington telling us how to spend those dollars and requiring us to hire administrators to fill out paperwork, to tell bureaucrats in Washington how they spent them. That is wrong. We can educate our children at the local level, increasing funds to the classroom, and we have seen it work in State government. Get rid of the bureaucrats, and hire the teachers. That is what this bill does, and that is why I am supporting it.
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Joe Wilson
Republican · South Carolina

Editor's note · Context

Discussing support for a bill aimed at local education funding and reducing federal bureaucracy.

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