Bobby Scott actually said...

"If you don't have a dropout rate factor, then you have a perverse incentive to let people drop out."

"The Everyone Graduates bill sponsored by Representative Bobby Scott (D-VA) achieves this and should be passed."

"I have introduced the Youth Promise Act, which is very similar, to reduce youth violence, where you bring in law enforcement, education, foster care, the probation department, churches, after-school p..."

"you really have to wonder what kind of people would look at a child in the third grade that can't read, knowing that that problem will put them on a trajectory towards prisons, and start building pris..."