Political Quotes

“Well, this is exactly what we are talking about. I think our vision of education, the vision that we see, and you know the exciting thing about going around the country and in some cases going to some of the most troubled areas and some of the roughest areas in the country, education in many of those areas is working. There are entrepreneurs, there are strong, driven individuals, there are parents that are going in and they are making a difference. And you know this is our vision for education. Our vision for education is a child-centered approach where the programs that we have in place are focused on helping the child, they are empowering parents, they are recognizing the importance of teachers in this process, that it is a partnership with teachers and parents and the student coming together to help that child learn. You know, one of the exciting things about this is we have seen lots of innovations in getting to a child-centered education. Charter schools; we have got them in Michigan, we saw them in California, we visited them in Phoenix.”