02/11/2009
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"I think maybe one way to think about that is there is a difference between giving people the flexibility to do something and giving people the flexibility to do nothing, which has been the outcome in ..."
"On the human capital question that you were raising at the end about finding administrators, finding teachers in rural areas, we face this in my State of Colorado as well."
"The problem with that is that kids end up in institutions where they are not learning anything year after year after year, and they just fall farther and farther behind."
"I think part of this is going to be solved by all of us kind of getting out of our own way here and creating politics that will allow us to make revolutionary change, not just evolutionary change."