Political Quotes

“in a recent article in the National Review, the author, Chester Finn, Jr., made the following comments about the present statute equally applicable to this bill. . . . prescriptive federal mandates that create heavy costs and regulatory burdens for local communities; extra benefits for government-protected populations and their exemption from rules that others must obey; ample opportunities for activists and lawyers to hustle taxpayer-financed largesse for their clients; barriers to needed reforms of school quality and discipline; . . . [and above all] the smug assumption that Washington knows best how the nation's schools should be run. While various professional organizations have more or less been required to endorse this bill because, as I have already said, it is an improvement over present law, just last month, USA Today published the results of a poll of 6,000 principals, 80 percent of whom said Federal law interfered with their ability to create safe schools. My two friends on this side of the aisle used the word ``balance.'' There is no balance in this bill. There is no balance at all. There is no consideration--no consideration, none--of the rights of nondisabled students. Yes, there are 16,000 school districts in this country.…”