Political Quotes

“it is an exciting day because education in the United States is off to a fresh start. The underlying bill, which I am hopeful and confident will be passed later today, does something that previous bills out of this body did not do, and that is cut redtape. It combines flexibility and allows local innovation, local creativity to emerge, with strong accountability built in to give our students--and that is the purpose--to give our students the best chance to receive a solid and a strong education to prepare them for the millennium which is just around the corner. Ed-Flex is not a panacea. We have been very careful, as sponsors of this bill, to point out it is not a panacea to our Nation's educational systems' woes, but it is a strong bipartisan, bicameral first step. It is a first step to unshackle the hands of our teachers, to unshackle the hands of our administrators, of our principals--all who are working hard every day to educate our children.”