"The purpose of funding education is equity for poor kids, equity for children with disabilities."
"The failure of the American system is how we pay for it."
"I think our goal is to make credit available."
"We do not live that way anymore. We have suburbs and we have spread out from our towns."
"If they were ninth graders, roughly 9 of them would graduate from a 4-year college."
"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 that is such an important point because when I was superintendent, if you blindfolded me, I didn't know whether I was talking to a university president or somebody that was running the apprent..."
"It is time to make some bold moves."
"If we don't take full advantage of this opportunity, if we don't think creatively and boldly, as you said, we will condemn not just our current students, but a generation of students to a lack of oppo..."