On the recordMarch 6, 2001
Tonight I want to talk about our children and their educational opportunities. I had the privilege of serving for 8 years as the State superintendent of schools for North Carolina and work with some wonderful people who deeply care about the education of our children. Just yesterday, I was in Eastern Wake County working with some tremendous people there, a lady by the name of Linda Johnson, who had previously been a teacher and school board member, who had pulled together three communities really to work together with children in a program they called Lights on for Education. They have taken on the monumental challenge in Eastern Wake County. What they are about is by 2003 they have committed to have 95 percent of their children in grades three through eight reading at or above grade level by 2003. That is a monumental task, because reading is the key skill of all of the trainings we need to have in education.
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