"They call for new spending without real reform or accountability," the Texas governor said.

But without accountability, without laws, what could one really learn?

"But we also know that resources without accountability are a recipe for waste."

"Investment without accountability is a waste of money," he said.

Under the vice president and the administration, money has been spent without accountability or results.

Since then, he had learned that power too often came without accountability.

The answer, however, is not to wait for a top-down federal solution or simply to spend more money without changes in teaching, learning and accountability.

"We hope to avoid the abuses of government without accountability."

It would be outrageous to do that in secret and without accountability.

Flexibility without such democratic accountability is unacceptable to us too.