Arne Duncan: “This is a better investment than all of the money we spend in prisons down the road.”

You can lie to parents about a lot of things, but if you start taking away opportunities from their children, you better watch out.

This is not left versus right, R versus D. This is a threat to dismantle public education and higher education in our country. And we should all be very, very scared of what could happen here.

They're trying to have it both ways. So they're bending to the pressure, the political pressure that they're feeling from him.

The absence of leadership at the federal level has had a devastating impact on kids' education in the spring, and now going into the fall and that hasn't changed.