Lois Capps: “I firmly believe that it is our responsibility as a society to ensure that our schools are not failing our children. We…”

“I firmly believe that it is our responsibility as a society to ensure that our schools are not failing our children. We can frame this in a positive way. In the United States of America, we have no greater calling as a democracy than to ensure that our children, the next generation, our greatest investment, receive the very best start in life in education that we can make available to them. Through our public school system in this country, we ensure that democracy is passed from one generation to the next. This is no small task that we entrust to our public schools. Through our public school system throughout the country in every hamlet, community, rural school, inner city school, each student who enrolls is given an opportunity to succeed, to make something of themselves. It is our way of the American dream. I also believe just as strongly that as this session of Congress comes to an end, we must agree on bipartisan legislation that will truly improve the quality of education for our children.”