Education

More than half the students in our Nation's city schools are failing to master the basics in reading, math, and science

We must make sure that every child has a safe and enriching place to go after school.

The White House announced that the President will travel to New York City and McAllen, Brownsville, and Houston, TX, on January 8 and 9 to highlight the importance of equal access to education for all Americans.

The most frustrating thing about American education today is that every problem in education has been solved by somebody somewhere.

If you want young people not to be trapped in dead-end jobs, they have to be able to get education for a lifetime.

That's why I'm so grateful we've got 800 colleges with their students working in our schools to teach children to read independently by the third grade.

Establishing a private school voucher system in the Nation's Capital would set a dangerous precedent.

We literally have opened the doors of college to everybody who will work for it now.

Every child needs what you provide here, education.

We should begin with education and economic opportunity.

The answer is to put competition, change, excellence, accountability back into the public school system, not to take limited funds away from it.

Public schools are the cornerstone of our democracy.

I have said that I had no higher priority than getting our children the best education in the world in the 21st century.

Therefore, it falls to every one of us to make sure that there is a next generation of artists and scholars who have the opportunity to learn and to create.

One of the most important goals for the millennium is to give every child in America access to the universe of knowledge and ideas by connecting every school and library in our country to the Internet by the year 2000.

Let us remember that the arts and humanities are a necessity, not a luxury, and that every American deserves to have access to them.

These community colleges work the way I think America ought to work.

Think what it was like for those nine kids to show up and face a jeering mob, armed only with their notebooks and their schoolbooks.