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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.
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Government likes committees... a lot. Committees kill all the really good ideas and generally all the really bad ideas. They produce middle-ground mush.
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Government tends to stifle innovation, and it abhors improvisation. Any good military strategist will tell you that a battle plan rarely survives past the first engagement. After that, you have to improvise to survive and to win.
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Government tends to believe in top-down solutions, and government fears of bottom-up solutions.
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As a kid, I grew up middle class, but my father was a great innovator with an entrepreneurial spirit, and it wasn't long before my family became part of the infamous 1%.
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Our nation's commitment is to provide a quality education to every child to serve the public common good. Accordingly, we must shift the paradigm to think of education funding as investments made in individual children, not in institutions or buildings.
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It shouldn't matter what type of school a student attends, so long as the school is the right fit for that student.
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Teachers deserve more respect than many give them, and more opportunities than the system affords them today.
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If the question is around gun violence and the results of that, please know that my heart bleeds and is broken for those families that have lost any individual due to gun violence.
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My family is the largest single contributor of soft money to the national Republican Party.
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When governors such as John Engler, Mike Huckabee, and Mike Pence were driving the conversation on voluntary high standards driven by local voices, it all made sense.
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I don't think Donald Trump represents the Republican Party... I think more and more people are going to realize that they really don't trust him.
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Dick and I became increasingly committed to helping other parents - parents from low-income families in particular.
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I greatly appreciate being asked to be part of President-elect Trump's team and I will continue to enthusiastically support him and his agenda for American renewal.
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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.
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Every child deserves to attend school in a safe, supportive environment where they can learn, thrive, and grow.
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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.
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That's where my heart has been for three decades is to really empower and allow all families the same kind of opportunities I've had for my kids.
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When we had segregated schools and when we had a time when, you know, girls weren't allowed to have the same kind of sports teams - I mean, there have been important inflection points for the federal government to get involved in some of the areas around protecting students and ensuring safe environments for them - there is a role to play.
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Let me say, I fully embrace equality, and I believe in the innate value of every single human being and that all students, no matter their age, should be able to attend a school and feel safe and be free of discrimination.
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Discrimination in any form is wrong. I don't support discrimination in any form.
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There are not enough philanthropic dollars in America to fund what is currently the need in education.
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We expect to foster a conservative governing philosophy consisting of limited government and respect for traditional American virtues.
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We knew we had the resources to send our kids to whatever school was best for them.
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I expect there will be more schools of any kind that haven't even been invented yet.
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It would be fine with me to have myself worked out of a job, but I'm not sure that - I'm not sure that there will be a champion movement in Congress to do that.
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I can assure you I have never made decisions on my mother's behalf on her foundation's board.
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If politicians in a state block education choice, it means those politicians do not support equal opportunity for all kids.
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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.
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The bottom line is we believe that parents are the best equipped to make choices for their children's schooling and education decisions.
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We're not proposing any shifting of funding from public schools to private schools.
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I need to stress that I could not be more supportive of great teachers and great teaching, no matter what kind of delivery vehicle they are teaching through. We have to support great teachers. They just have to be freed up to do what they do best.
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The bigger goal of giving all parents more choices is one that will have to be discussed and undoubtedly roundly debated, but we are going to have to continue to build the case. The momentum is there on the state level in many states. That's where the energy needs to be harnessed in a new way.
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Parents no longer believe that a one-size-fits-all model of learning meets the needs of every child. And they know other options exist, whether magnet, virtual, charter, home, faith-based, or any other combination.
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