Political Quotes

“Today we close international tax loopholes and open more educational opportunities. Last year in Texas, Governor Perry and his cohorts misdirected $3.2 billion in Federal aid to education simply to replace State education commitments, leaving our schools not one dime better off than if we had never offered them that Federal aid to education in the first place. Given this very unfortunate history for our schoolchildren and the many unique educational challenges that Texas faces, we have good reason to include in this legislation Texas-specific safeguards to prevent more such shenanigans with a formula that assures that this year Federal education aid will get directly to our local schools. Our approach enjoys the support of school trustees, of superintendents, of principals, of teachers. We have been listening across Texas to our parents at this time of excitement as so many young people are going back to school, some for the first time, and we are offering those families and those local schools the important support they need for local education, paying for every dime of it, and we are supporting those local education decisions by local school trustees to achieve quality education free of interference from the State. We are demanding accountability from the State of Texas. For some reason accountability seems like a good concept for everyone except some Republican leaders and some international corporate tax avoiders.”