We are working to provide more foreign language instruction for students. We are raising standards and demanding more from teachers and students. At the same time, we need to expand the availability of arts and music. We also need to find ways to use the creativity and teamwork inherent in the arts to make other subjects more engaging and more exciting. Every student needs to take the core academic classes.
Every student needs to be comfortable with technology, which is a necessity for most careers.
And I believe that every student, starting at an early age, should be encouraged to do everything possible to finish high school and go on to post-high school technical education or a community college or a university. For our efforts to be successful, there are three steps we must take. First, we need to make middle schools and high schools more engaging and more challenging. Technology can help us achieve this. Smaller classes and smaller schools may be part of the solution.