Burgess Owens: “as a matter of practice, I never like to criticize any efforts related to the improvement of education, whether they…”

“as a matter of practice, I never like to criticize any efforts related to the improvement of education, whether they take place here or at the local government area or in the State governments. All efforts to improve education are generally to be applauded. As I said before, we need a comprehensive approach to the improvement of our schools and almost no attention focused on schools is wasted. First of all, it is important that the American people, the vast majority of the American people, the voters have placed education at a high priority position. They repeatedly insist that education is a high priority and that Federal aid to education is also a high priority. That is consistent and highly desirable. As a result of the general public and the voters insisting that education is a high priority, we have a lot of attention being focused on education by elected officials at every level, both in the Congress, the city councils, and the State legislatures. A lot of attention is being paid to education, a lot of campaigns that are running now across the country for this coming election day on November 4, they are not congressional campaigns because we are not running for office this year, but municipal campaigns, campaigns for Governor. Schools are in the forefront in terms of issues that voters care about and want to hear discussed.”