They must provide the necessary funds to our schools in an equitable way, and they must spend every dollar as effectively as possible. The public must choose to invest in education now, rather than pay the long-term higher costs of crime, prisons, drug abuse, teenage pregnancy, welfare dependency and unemployment later. These successes must be identified, modeled, shared, replicated, expanded and enriched - because even the best practices can become better. There is no single, easy response to the challenge of improving student achievement. Nothing is more important than how much our children know, how well they know it, how well they can use it, and how effectively they can add to it throughout their lives.
Nothing is more important than education.