Betsy DeVos: “I think we can work together, and we could work hard on making sure that college or higher education in some form is…”

I totally support charter schools and think we need not fewer of them. We need many more of them.

We have got to continue to raise the specter of these opportunities and give them equal credence to the unspoken or often very verbally articulated pressure to go to a 4-year college.

I think that there is almost unanimity around this notion that more students need to have the opportunity to both earn and learn.

Reading opens kids' minds and expands their world. Literacy is the foundation of learning and it's the starting point on the pathway to the American dream.