Political Quotes

“I have here in my hand a cloth filled with coal dust sent to me by a principal from a southern Ohio school saying: Congressman, this is what our teachers must use to wipe the coal dust from our desks and the computers before our students can use them. Ohio, Ohio ranks 50 among the States in terms of the physical condition of our school buildings, and yet in Ohio we use public tax dollars to build sports stadiums. The average school in my district is 46 years old. Students in my district go to schools that are unsafe. Ten percent do not meet local fire codes. We need federal assistance, not federal control, but federal assistance to enable our local schools to build, repair and modernize the schools our children attend. In Ohio prisoners could not be housed in some of our school buildings because the courts would say they were unfit for prisoners, and yet we send our students there.”