Bobby Scott actually said...

"As I indicated, since the Brown decision, there is a constitutional responsibility to provide an equal educational opportunity."

"Every child in every school deserves an excellent education and the only way to achieve that, though, is to restore State and local control."

"We cannot go back to the days when the Federal Government dictated national education policy. It did not work then and it will not work now."

"No doubt you have good intentions, Mr. Secretary, but you do not have the legal authority to do this. I strongly urge you to abandon this flawed scheme."