Political Quotes

“in communities all over America, we are trying to support public education, involve parents, improve the quality of education, support professional educators. This Congress has not done its share. Indeed, when this Congress goes home, if we let it go without supporting public education and the Members of Congress wave bye-bye out at the airport, they will be recognizing about the only accomplishment of this Congress, which is the renaming of the airport here in Washington. The reason nothing has been done is that the priorities greatly differ between Democrats and Republicans. Republicans want to abolish the Department of Education. Republicans want to take money away from public schools and give those monies, those public monies to elite academies. We believe the time is now to stand for this Congress doing something positively to support local communities who want to improve the quality of public education. That is what this budget battle is all about. Let us stand firmly for public schools and stand firmly against a do-nothing Congress that has nothing at this point to point to as an accomplishment.”