Frequently plagued by overcrowding and consistently low test scores, public schools need our help. We must make strengthening public education a priority. We must make sure that 95 percent of federal tax dollars that go to education end up in the classroom, not wasted in the Washington bureaucracy. We must make sure that children are not trapped in poor schools, but that parents have a chance to send their children elsewhere if the local public school is substandard. We must also make sure that schools and our neigborhoods are drug free.
Recent statistics show drug use is on the rise.
The Republican Congress has passed legislation to fund an aggressive war on drugs. This war involved fighting the supply and the demand. Talk to your kids, talk to your students about drugs. The Republican majority in the House is prepared to finish what we started four years ago. Whether in education, Social Security, or tax reform or health care, we will be working to solve the nation's problems.