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20,845
there must by K-2 diagnostic teaching tools, teacher training money, available.
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20,847
Let them reach out beyond the confines of the current structure to recruit teach-for-the-children type teachers.
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20,849
Show us if they are learning to read, write, add and subtract and if so there will be bonus plans.
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20,852
And so does Michael Feinberg.
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20,855
We agree on a couple of things on education.
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20,858
I'm in favor of testing as a way of measuring performance.
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20,860
I've also proposed a voluntary national test in the fourth grade and eighth grade, and a form of testing the governor has not endorsed.
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20,861
I think that all new teachers ought to be tested in the subjects that they teach.
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20,863
And I have budgeted for that.
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20,865
We ought to have universal pre-school and we ought to make college tuition tax deductible, up to $10,000 a year.
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20,866
I would like to tell you a quick story.
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20,869
We had a great time.
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No
20,871
The guy that served us lunch gave me a letter today.
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20,876
They sent me a picture of her in the classroom.
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No
20,877
They can't squeeze another desk in for her, so she has to stand during class.
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20,878
I want the federal government, consistent with local control and new accountability, to make improvement of our schools the number one priority so Caley will have a desk and can sit down in a classroom where she can learn.
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20,883
He says he's for voluntary testing.
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20,885
You must have mandatory testing.
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20,886
You must say that if you receive money you must show us whether or not children are learning to read and write and add and subtract.
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20,890
Testing is the cornerstone of reform.
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20,893
Republicans and Democrats came together and said what can we do to make our public education the best in the country?
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20,896
We're going to ask you to show us whether or not -- we ask you to post the results on the Internet.
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20,899
I believe if we find poor children trapped in schools that won't teach, we need to free the parents.
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20,900
We need to expand education savings accounts.
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20,901
Something that the vice president’s running mate supports.
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20,905
I think the governor may not have heard what I said clearly.
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20,906
The voluntary national testing is in addition to the mandatory testing that we require of states.
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20,910
Now, private schools play a great role in our society.
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20,911
All of our children have gone to both public schools and private schools.
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20,912
But I don't think private schools should have a right to take taxpayer money away from public schools at a time when Caley Ellis is standing in that classroom.
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20,913
Let me give you another example.
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20,914
I went to a school in Dade County, Florida where the facilities are so overcrowded the children have to eat lunch in shifts with the first shift for lunch starting at 9:30 in the morning.
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20,918
90% of our kids go to public schools.
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20,919
We have to make it the number one priority.
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20,920
Modernize our schools, reduce class size, recruit new teachers, give every child a chance to learn with one-on-one time in a quality -- high-quality, safe school.
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20,921
If it's a failing school, shut it down and reopen it under a new principal with a turnaround team of specialists the way Governor Jim Hunt does in North Carolina.
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20,923
The governor, if it's a failing school, would leave the children in that failing school for three years and then give a little bit of money to the parents, a down payment on a down payment for private school tuition, and pretend that that would be enough for them to go out and go to a private school.
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20,927
First of all, most of good governance is at the state level.
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20,930
All I'm saying is if you spend money, show us results and test every year, which you do not do, Mr. Vice President.
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20,932
You can say you do to the cameras but you don't, unless you've changed your plan here on the stage.
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20,934
You need to test every year.
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20,939
If you're 10 we'll put you here, 12 you put here.
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20,941
If you don't know what you're supposed to know, we'll make sure you do early before it's too late.
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20,946
When the action in Kosovo was dragging on and we were searching for a solution to the problem, our country had defeated the adversary on the battlefield without a single American life being lost in combat.
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20,949
But it was a calculated risk that paid off.
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20,950
Now, I could probably give you some other examples of decisions over the last 24 years.
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20,951
I have been in public service for 24 years, Jim.
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20,952
And throughout all that time the people I have fought for have been the middle-class families, and I have been willing to stand up to powerful interests like the big insurance companies, the drug companies, the HMOs, the oil companies.
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20,953
They have good people and they play constructive roles sometimes, but sometimes they get too much power.
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20,959
I've been standing up to big Hollywood, big trial lawyers.
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20,960
Was – what was the question?
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20,966
I remember going down to Del Rio, Texas.
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20,967
I have to pay the administration a compliment.
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20,968
James Lee Witt of FEMA has done a really good job of working with governors during times of crisis.
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20,970
It broke my heart to go to the flood scene in Del Rio where a fellow and his family got completely uprooted.
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20,980
But what I would do first and foremost, is I would get in touch with the Federal Reserve Chairman, Alan Greenspan, to find out all the facts and all the circumstances.
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20,984
That's what governors end up doing.
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20,986
We come up with practical, common sense solutions for problems that we're confronted with.
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20,989
First I want to compliment the governor on his response to those fires and floods in Texas.
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20,995
When the Asian financial crisis raised the risk of world-wide recession that could affect our economy, And now, of course, the euro's value has been dropping, but seems to be under control.
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20,997
But it's not good enough.
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21,002
There is a difference, though, as to what the economy has meant.
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21,008
You know, I think the American people deserve credit for the great economy that we have.
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21,012
The difference is we've got a new policy.
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21,013
And instead of concentrating on tax cuts mostly for the wealthy, we want -- I want tax cuts for the middle-class families and I want to continue the prosperity and make sure that it enriches not just a few but all of our families.
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21,019
We have got to do much more.
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21,020
The key is job training, education, investments in health care and education, environment, retirement security.
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21,021
And incidentally, we have got to preserve Social Security.
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21,022
I'm totally opposed to diverting one out of every six dollars out of the Social Security trust fund, as the Governor has proposed, into the stock market.
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21,023
I want new incentives for savings and investment for the young couples who are working hard so they can save and invest on their own on top of Social Security, not at the expense of Social Security, as the governor proposes.
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21,026
I remember the vice president saying, "Just give us a chance to get up there, we're going to make sure you get tax cuts."
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21,028
Now he's having to say that again.
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21,030
Secondly, the surest way to bust this economy is to increase the role and size of the federal budget.
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21,035
His targeted tax cut is so detailed, so much fine print that it is going to require numerous IRS agents.
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21,037
If I could respond, Jim.
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21,038
What he's quoting is not the Senate Budget Commiitte, it is a partisan press release by the Republicans on the Senate Budget Committee that's not worth the government -- the taxpayer-paid paper that it's printed on.
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21,039
Now, as for 20,000 new bureaucrats, as you call them, you know, the size of the federal government will go down in a Gore administration.
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21,040
In the reinventing government program you just look at the numbers.
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21,042
Now, the fact is you're going to have a hard time convincing folks that we were a whole lot better off eight years ago than we are today.
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21,043
But that's not the question.
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21,044
The question is, will we be better off four years from now than we are today?
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21,046
I can't let the man continue with fuzzy math.
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21,047
It is 1.3 trillion Mr. Vice President.
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21,048
It will go to everybody who pays taxes.
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21,050
I'm not going to be a picker and chooser.
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21,051
What is fair is everybody who pays taxes ought to get relief.
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21,061
Because if we can keep our prosperity going, if we can continue balancing the budget and paying down the debt, then the strong economy keeps generating surpluses.
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21,063
I will keep Social Security in a lockbox and that pays down the national debt.
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21,064
And the interest savings I would put right back into Social Security.
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21,066
Now, I think that it's very important to understand that cutting benefits under Social Security means that people like Winifred Skinner from Des Moines, Iowa, who is here, would really have a much harder time.
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21,069
I don't go along with it.
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21,070
I am opposed to it.
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21,074
His leading advisor on this plan actually said that would be okay, because then the Social Security Trust Fund could start borrowing.
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21,075
It would borrow up to $3 trillion.
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21,078
I think it should stay in a lockbox, and I'll tell you this.
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21,079
I will veto anything that takes money out of Social Security for privatization or anything else other than Social Security.
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21,081
He puts no real assets into the Social Security system.
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21,087
The vice president thinks it's the government's money.
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21,088
The payroll taxes are your money.
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21,091
It's a part of the Social Security system.
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