I suspect there is huge variability in the United States of how many computers are available.

I wish that--I want to come back as a panelist, not as a Senator.

We spend roughly $8,000 a kid in Denver. I think we get better results probably than Newark.

How can America sustain itself as a world power if we are allowing huge numbers of our children to fail?

I happen to think it is a national security issue.

What is amazing about that study is what it says about the middle class kids, is that they actually gain ground during the summer when they are not in the programs.

Our Federal spending is roughly 9 percent of what we spend on K-12 education.

I think that needs to be exposed to the entire country.

Having said all that, we would gladly take $18,000 a kid in the Denver Public Schools.

the idea that we have $12 trillion of debt on our balance sheet, but we haven't been able to make somehow the kind of investments that everybody here is talking about in our human capital and the infrastructure in this country, really does…

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