Betsy DeVos

More and more studies show that kids are actually stoppers of the disease and they don't get it and transmit it themselves. So we should be in a posture of -- the default should be getting back to school kids in-person, in the classroom.

I think, importantly, that flexibility at the State and local level would really allow those closest to the students to target those resources.

I think the block grant proposal is really sort of transformative in that way because it would allow for all of the uses of those programs.

I, too, don't agree with your approach with continuing to do the same thing with more and more resources and expect a different result.

I totally support charter schools and think we need not fewer of them. We need many more of them.

I think that there is almost unanimity around this notion that more students need to have the opportunity to both earn and learn.

My focus is and always will be on students and on helping all students get a great education through an equal opportunity.

We have got to continue to raise the specter of these opportunities and give them equal credence to the unspoken or often very verbally articulated pressure to go to a 4-year college.

Reading opens kids' minds and expands their world. Literacy is the foundation of learning and it's the starting point on the pathway to the American dream.

There are way too many families that don't have that choice and we continue to consign them in too many cases to schools that do not work for them.

This Budget reflects a commitment to that sentiment. It also recognizes who actually funds the government's budget--American taxpayers.