"This is not a question, but it is very relevant to what we are talking about today."
"I think we have the second highest number of teachers who have gotten National Board Certification."
"Like much of the nation, Louisiana faces a mismatch between the skills of the workforce and the needs of employers."
"Too often... there is a perception that there is something called vocational education that is aside from 4-year schools."
"I know all of us have the best of intentions when it comes to helping students afford a college education."
"Heavy-handed federal regulations often yield results contradictory to their aim, weighing down States with another layer of burdensome red tape."
"I know all of us have the best intentions when it comes to helping students afford a college education."
"If students can afford the cost of their college education, they are more likely to lead healthy and prosperous lives."
"I do want to say that a group of students from Appalachian State University just came in."
"It isn't money that makes a good school. I grew up in western North Carolina in about as poor a place as there ever has been, and I say I got a really excellent education."
"I find it absolutely amazing that the United States of America got to the point it got to, got through World War II and won World War II without a single federal government worker training program."