We have just got to somehow break this thing down and get these two together in how we focus education on these young kids.
I believe that we must invest in education to ensure that every child has the opportunity to succeed.
No Child Left Behind ought to mean that we are not leaving them behind in their health either.
Education is one of the most critical issues we have to address.
I come to this work with three deeply held beliefs.
That would be like saying to any minority group 30 percent of you just don't count.
One of the results of No Child Left Behind... is that... the first teachers to go... is usually the art teacher or the music teacher or the ...
We have it in Iowa and a few other States, and we have been funding it. All of the indications are that it has been a great success.
Can you give us some specificity as to how we can make college opportunity more affordable for the young people of America so that more of t...
There is no magic bullet anywhere along the line.
How we progress as a country and how we are going to maintain our standard of living, our way of life, and provide for equality of opportuni...
Thank you very much.
We are in the business of educating kids and not letting them play on monkey bars.
You have a big job ahead of you. I don't think there is any Secretary whose decisions, whose statements, public posture has more effect on t...
The Secretary of Education, along with the Secretary of Health and Human Services, they have the task of defining America, who we are and wh...
Education has been a bipartisan issue, and we need to keep it that way.
Congress and the Department of Education need to work together to make sure that every school has the tools and the flexibility needed.
Quality education is also the civil rights issue of our generation.
