State Sen. Chris Kapenga:
It again shows that if we're going to be good at our jobs, the easy political response to that is, "Oh, we're just going to create $300 million, we'll create $7 million for this." That is a big question that cannot be answered in a political soundbite, because we haven't done the work yet to understand what's needed. What you start with is you start with a working task force that says, and it should be done from the governor, who says, "Go out, and we need to figure out how pervasive the problem is." What we don't want to do is create a solution for a problem that's not there. People are clearly concerned with what happened at MPS, but what we have to guard ourselves against, and this happens often because it's easy for politicians on both sides of the aisle to, "Hey, let's quick do a bill" or get a press release out there to make us look like we're doing something, and we never fix the problem. So, you start by saying we need to find out is this a pervasive problem throughout the education system? And if it is, then we need to look at what is a fix for it, what is it going to take to fix that. That's where you start. You can't just say, "Let's take $300 million." That takes time to be responsible, and you've got to really dig into that.