[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 81 (Friday, June 19, 1998)]
[House]
[Pages H4842-H4843]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                  AMERICA NEEDS REAL EDUCATION REFORM

  (Mr. ROGAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. ROGAN. Mr. Speaker, what would it take to convince education 
bureaucrats that reformers are pro-education? Would an effort to give 
parents more control over their children's education do it? Would a 
program that gives children trapped in terrible schools the opportunity 
to go to a better school do it? How about reforms in place around the 
country that offer disadvantaged children real hope for the first time?
  No, none of these are satisfactory to the education bureaucrats, 
because they oppose everything we are attempting to do--from charter 
schools to parental choice to improve education. The only way to 
convince them is simply keep sending more money to spend from 
Washington, D.C.
  We Republicans reject this failed philosophy. We are going to pass 
legislation to give control, as Governor John Engler says, to parents 
who love their children, and take it away from bureaucrats who love 
their paychecks.

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