Dick and I became increasingly committed to helping other parents - parents from low-income families in particular.
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.
President-elect Trump and I know it won't be Washington, D.C., that unlocks our nation's potential, nor a bigger bureaucracy, tougher mandates, or a federal agency. The answer is local control and listening to parents, students, and teachers.
Opening a complaint for investigation in no way implies that the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has made a determination about the merits of the complaint.
There are not enough philanthropic dollars in America to fund what is currently the need in education.
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.
We're not proposing any shifting of funding from public schools to private schools.
I expect there will be more private schools.
If you can't get cell phone service in your living room, then your particular provider is failing you. You should have the option to find a network that does work.
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.
Above all, I believe every child, no matter their ZIP code or their parents' jobs, deserves access to a quality education.
No student should feel like there isn't a way to seek justice, and no student should feel that the scales are tipped against him or her.
Just as the traditional taxi system revolted against ride sharing, so too does the education establishment feel threatened by the rise of school choice.
We won't accomplish our goals by creating a new federal bureaucracy or by bribing states with their own taxpayers' money.
No child's dream should be limited by the quality, or lack thereof, of the education they receive.
We've seen more and more people opt for homeschooling, including in urban areas.
As we know, lots of people working together to solve problems doesn't happen often enough, particularly here in Washington.
