** “What’s so atrocious is that Eric Holder, the Obama Department of Justice, [is] using the same rules intended to protect low-income children, intended to allow them to go to better schools, now wants to use those same rules to force these kids to go back to failing schools because they are so beholden to the government unions. Can you believe that? We’ve got a message for Eric Holder; we’ve got a message for President Obama: The American dream is alive and well in Louisiana. We’re gonna fight for these children.” ~ Bobby Jindal, governor of Louisiana (R)
** “Students who can print can be taught to read cursive in as little as an hour without spending the months of practice necessary to master formation of the loopy, connected letters of cursive.” ~ Digital First Media