06/17/2009
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"This is quite different, Mr. Chairman, than most of the Nation. In a lot of the Nation, 80 percent of the kids who enter kindergarten have not had any early learning experiences."
"Nobody thinks our 2-year budget deal was perfect. It was a compromise."
"As former Florida Governor Jeb Bush says, the sad truth is that equality of opportunity does not exist in many of our schools, and that failure is the great moral and economic issue of our time, and i..."
"If we do that, we will lay the groundwork for economic prosperity."