Latest Answers http://askyourlawmaker.org/answers/latest/%2A/20/%2A/%2A a view of answers sorted by date en Nobody believes, certainly I don’t that you can just build a fence, pat yourself on the back and say ‘hey, look we secured the border’ because people can cut holes in fences, they can come over it and they can come around it. So, you need to have a solution comprised of people, technology and in some places physical barriers- but it’s got to be a combination. http://askyourlawmaker.org/answers/nobody-believes%2C-certainly-i-don%E2%80%99t-you-can-just-build-fence%2C-pat-yourself-back-and-say-%E2%80%98hey%2C Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:57:00 -0500 Jodi Breisler 1241 at http://askyourlawmaker.org Oh there’s a lot we can do to fix that in the rewrite on No Child Left Behind, we plan to focus on those high schools that produce the greatest number of dropouts, to try to put together a plan for those high schools, to also focus on those schools that feed into those high schools.You know have about two-thousand high schools that produce almost fifty-percent of the drop-outs in the country and so we want to start looking at how’d we improve the graduation rates, how we help the schools attract students to come back to school, maybe even some of the students who’ve dropped out come back and finish their diploma. We’re seeing some success in New York City and other areas to bring students back and have them graduate, even if its not in four years, it takes extra time, but it’s certainly worth it to have them get their diploma. http://askyourlawmaker.org/answers/oh-there%E2%80%99s-lot-we-can-do-fix-rewrite-no-child-left-behind%2C-we-plan-focus-those-high-schools- Sun, 06 Jan 2008 20:07:46 -0600 921 at http://askyourlawmaker.org “We all believe that the border security has to come first. That’s not a problem. What is a problem is the inability to get anything done, for example to provide a desperately needed workforce for agriculture in America.” http://askyourlawmaker.org/answers/%E2%80%9Cwe-all-believe-border-security-has-come-first.-%E2%80%99s-not-problem.-what-problem-inability-get-a Wed, 12 Dec 2007 12:12:11 -0600 887 at http://askyourlawmaker.org This is not about politics. This is about the faith of about 1.6 billion people in this world. I think it would have been better if they wanted to talk about it. http://askyourlawmaker.org/answers/not-about-politics.-about-faith-about-1.6-billion-people-world.-i-think-it-would-have-been-0 Fri, 02 Nov 2007 15:28:21 -0500 root 171 at http://askyourlawmaker.org