We have just got to somehow break this thing down and get these two together in how we focus education on these young kids.

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.

We have to build on the successes of No Child Left Behind.

Confirming the President's nominees is one of the most important constitutional duties of the Senate.

I believe that education is a key factor in securing a sound economic future for our country.

The President-elect views education as both a moral obligation and an economic imperative.

When we fail to properly educate children, we, as educators, perpetuate poverty, and we perpetuate social failure.

We must understand that education begins at birth, and the preparation for education begins before birth.

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 phys ed teacher.

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 them can go to college and so that more of them will not leave college with these very oppressive…