Political Quotes

“tomorrow, we will have an opportunity to vote for students. Tomorrow, we will have an opportunity to vote for parents. Tomorrow, we will have the opportunity to vote for common sense in the U.S. Senate. Tomorrow, we will have an opportunity to vote for my resolution to stop the Biden Department of Education from destroying educational opportunities for millions of students and their parents. During the pandemic, we saw the devastating impact of prolonged school closures on America's kids, especially kids living in low-income communities. Big labor unions orchestrated these shutdowns, and blue city politicians fell in lockstep. They sided with union bosses over parents, over kids, and over plain old common sense. Now we see the tragic consequences. The 2022 NAEP scorecard shows the largest drop in reading scores for 9-year-olds in more than 30 years and the first-ever--the first-ever--drop in math scores, a 7-percent decrease. We warned them that this would happen. We said stop, stop letting labor bosses make decisions. Parents--parents--are the ones who know what is best for their kids. They need flexibility. They deserve choice. One of those options should always be high-quality public charter schools. These charter schools continue to outkick their coverage. This year, charter schools only represent 12 percent--12 percent--of all public high schools, but they make up 22 percent of the top 100 public high schools in our amazing country.…”