Our State Chairman, Bill Thomson, has been heard to ask, "How many people here today believe that there is something wrong with our educational system?" Raise your hands! " How many believe that we are not getting the best results for the money we spend on education today?" Raise your hands! "How many of you here have ran for or are currently serving on a Board of Education? If you believe that there is something wrong with the educational system, if you believe that we are not getting the type of education relative to the money we spend, you cannot wait for someone else to do the work that you should be doing. It's time for you to get out and run.*

"What's wrong with education cannot be fixed with technology. No amount of technology will make a dent. It's a political problem…I'm one of those people who believe the best thing we could ever do is to go to a full voucher system."

Steve Jobs - Co-Founder of Apple Computer --Wired, February, 1996

"I am a lifelong Democrat, and I am not sure when the Democrats decided that siding with the poor and the needy is no longer part of their platform. School choice empowers parents and I don't care who is behind it, Democrats or Republicans."

Virginia Walden a D.C. Parent --Washington Post, May 24,1998

"We've trusted the bureaucracy to reform the schools, and they haven't done the job.

Roy Allen -- Former Democratic Georgia State Senator

"It's time we talked about trusting parents to make the decision on what school is best for their children."

Albert Shanker Former President American Federation of Teachers

--Wall Street Journal, September 21,1993

"It's time to admit that public education operates like a planned economy, a bureaucratic system in which everybody's role is spelled out in advance, and there are few incentives for innovation and productivity. It's no surprise that our school system doesn't improve. It more resembles the communist economy than our own market economy."

Howard Fuller Former School Superintendent Milwaukee School District
--Wall Street Journal, October 2, 1989

"Interests of poor children are best served if they are truly given options, public and private. And real reform will only come from pressure outside the system, generated by empowered parents with expanded school choice."

--USA Today, August 25, 1995

* Ironically, the NJ Education Association has already been afraid you might, and wrote a story in their April 1996 issue of the NJ Reporter about how to identify and prevent a Christian from being on the school board. Thank you Teacher's Union!