David Obey: “I doubt that the Parent-Teachers Association of America, I doubt that the School Boards Association of America, I doubt…”

“I doubt that the Parent-Teachers Association of America, I doubt that the School Boards Association of America, I doubt that the School Administrators Association of America, I doubt that the title I administrators in the various 50 States, I doubt that the chief school officers of the 50 States would endorse a proposition which mandates on them requirements from Washington. They are supporting this because they believe this is the best way to make title I work. They believe that schools need the opportunity to review the way they are administered, the way teachers are trained and the way children are taught, and there is nothing whatsoever wrong with that. One percent of schools in the country have already worked through the New American Schools model. There are other schools pursuing other models, and that is fine with me.”