Political Quotes

“the debate we are having this week and next week on education reform in this country may be the most important debate we have in the Senate this year. Education is probably the most important thing we do as a government. We have the best military, the best economy, and the best technology in the world. There is absolutely no reason that we should not have the best public schools in the world. We are the leader in so many other areas, and we should be the leader also in this area. Whether you are talking to teachers, students, school administrators, or parents, you hear the same thing everywhere you go. I have townhall meetings in North Carolina regularly. I visit schools there regularly. You hear the same things every single place. No. 1, everyone wants to make sure that every school is a high-performing school. In other words, there is no excuse for there being a single low-performing school in America. Second, we need fine, quality teachers, and we need to pay them well and keep them. Third, we need to make sure that the performance of every single student in America is improved. That is what this education debate is about. We should make this decade the education decade in America.”