If taxpayer money were limitless, we wouldn't need a budget at all.
The faculty, from adjunct professors to deans, tell you what to do, what to say, and more ominously, what to think.
If we can manage to break free, to open the system and embrace all choices for education, we will be the first to give politicians awards to hang on their office walls.
I'm proud to stand beside you as a partner and support Special Olympics - an important program that promotes leadership and empowers students to be agents of change.
If a parent chooses to go to a school that is not a public school, then that is a decision made and a contract made with that provider.
Too many children today are trapped in schools that don't work for them.
The older generations are too wedded to political parties, too wedded to romantic memories of what education was like when they were kids, and too wedded to the status quo group that clings to power.
HBCUs are real pioneers when it comes to school choice. They are living proof that when more options are provided to students, they are afforded greater access and greater quality.
We won't accomplish our goals by creating a new federal bureaucracy or by bribing states with their own taxpayers' money.
We must first listen, then speak - with humility - to genuinely hear the perspectives of those with whom we don't immediately or instinctively agree.
It is not fair to think that when students transit through a K-12 system that is not preparing them for beyond, that somehow we are going to wave a magic wand and things are going to be perfect for them at the higher-ed level.
