I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria - when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers.
I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria - when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers.
Was it the right thing to say No. Are there certain lines that I have used in the past that are on 'Saturday Night Live' Yes, ... But this is part of the learning experience.
I've had a lot to learn.
They wouldn't accept the status quo, ... They fought for this charter, walking door to door to gather petitions and taking their case to the school board. They put students first and let everyone know that failure is not an option.
You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.
We have an enormous amount of great teachers out there, terrific teachers ... but we cannot get rid of the bad teachers. They're called the lemons. Each school has those lemons. And they call it the dance of the lemons, where they kick them from school to school but you can't get them out, ... What I say is, 'Let's kick them right out and let's dance them out the door rather than dancing them from school to school.'
This was a struggling school, ... Test scores were down. Students were falling years behind their grade level. But the people here didn't give up on the kids.
The people in the Valley are disappointed that they have such a huge drop-out rate, ... They tell me that their kids get lost when they drop out, and they cannot then catch on, and they don't go to vocational education. They just drift around. It's very hard for those kids to get jobs.
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