Emerson Etheridge said "The truth is, in schools or other agencies, we have a responsibility to help fund. The last thing they need is to be block granted or have grants they have to deal with. You cannot hire teachers on block grants and grant funding. The truth is when you hire a teacher or any person to work with children, you have to have enough to sustain that investment, the money has to be a continuous stream, otherwise you cannot hire people and sustain them. The gentleman mentioned this whole issue of the penal system. It reminds me, and I just said this a number of times in my State, we have prisons that are nicer in this country than we have public schools in some places. That is wrong. It ought to end. It ought to end right now. We have the ability in this Congress to do something about it, because we have the resources." @ PoliticalQuotes.com

On the recordMarch 6, 2001

The truth is, in schools or other agencies, we have a responsibility to help fund. The last thing they need is to be block granted or have grants they have to deal with. You cannot hire teachers on block grants and grant funding. The truth is when you hire a teacher or any person to work with children, you have to have enough to sustain that investment, the money has to be a continuous stream, otherwise you cannot hire people and sustain them. The gentleman mentioned this whole issue of the penal system. It reminds me, and I just said this a number of times in my State, we have prisons that are nicer in this country than we have public schools in some places. That is wrong. It ought to end. It ought to end right now. We have the ability in this Congress to do something about it, because we have the resources.

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Emerson Etheridge

Ind. Republican-Democrat · Tennessee

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Editor's note · Context

Discussing the need for consistent funding in education and criticizing the disparity between schools and prisons.

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