Kids are in a total vacuum. Teachers and staff are in a partial vacuum. None of the federal agencies are doing enough.

Environmental health in schools is an orphan issue. The federal government has to take more of a leadership role at all different levels: research and surveillance, guidelines for maintenance and repairs, and new construction.

The whole discussion for two and half years was that federal agencies couldn't connect the dots, ... None of these databases talked to each other.

There's been a lot of shuffling of local government officials. With a vacuum of authority come an atmosphere of banditry and a sense of impunity.

The current situation is unacceptable. Recruitment agencies make all the checks they can on staff but these checks are only as good as the registers provided.

Partial truths or half-truths are often more insidious than total falsehoods.