"But unfortunately, Republican school choice is a backdoor to undermining those civil rights protections we wrote into ESSA."
"I deeply believe that all students with disabilities deserve the protections and supports to provide them with an equal opportunity at a high-quality education as any other student."
"One of the challenges we have as legislators is making the best use of the taxpayer's dollars."
"We also know that research on voucher programs are clear, they do not lead to academic benefits for low-income students."
"So the choice isn't on the part of the parents, the choice is whoever gets to decide who gets a voucher."
"Frankly, it is like having a pizza. You don't have more pizza if you cut it into slices; you still have the same amount of money."
"So the employees take the downside risk. What about the upside, who enjoys the upside surprise?"
"If there is a surprisingly good market, how would the employee benefit?"
"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."
"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."
"Every child in every school deserves an excellent education and the only way to achieve that, though, is to restore State and local control."
"I look forward to dialogue with both Secretary King and the panel of expert witnesses concerning the Department of Education's ongoing efforts to provide states and school districts with the clarity a..."