"We have to stop paying our teachers, in my opinion, as wage workers. They are not, they're professionals. We should pay them to get a job done; we should pay them based upon results."
"It's crazy that in places like New York and Newark it's almost impossible, it takes hundreds of thousands of dollars just to be able to fire one teacher -- one that universally everybody says is bad."
"I have no formal authority. I don't appoint board members and don't have any kind of say in what happens or how those dollars are spent. I don't have any influence over curriculum."
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"I want that math professional coming out of graduate school to say, you know what, I could go work for Microsoft and make $200,000 a year or, wait a minute, I could go work in Newark, New Jersey. If I..."
"This two-pronged approach was adopted by Mayor Cory A. Booker of Newark, New Jersey."
"I was happy that even disadvantaged people in my community could get involved and know that even their $5 donation was significant."
"This gentleman, excuse me, this person should not have been on the streets, point plain. And mistakes, in my opinion, were made."
"I don't think words can describe the level of emotion I feel about this individuals and all the individuals involved and what they've done to these families."
"The incident itself will not define us, but how we respond to it -- respond to it will define us."
"We don't want to be exact with the number. But there are people we are looking for. We have some names and identifications and the manhunt is on."