Mr. Secretary, some people are saying, following up on what the congressman just said, that if this act is implemented the way the president envisions that the president will be the nation's superintendent and congress will be the nation's board of education. Well, of course not. I dollars get to the school district. You don't hear that out a lot, but that's the truth. Well, Title I and these other programs, the social promotion issue and the low-performing schools.
Nobody is for unqualified teachers.
That's what the president's talking about. No one is for having low performing, non-performing schools sending federal dollars in there under Title I or whatever and having them go on and on and on and on. Nobody is for continuing that. Nobody is for passing students right on through school who are not qualified and who are not ready to perform in society. That's what social promotion amounts to.