These Blue Ribbon Schools are an example of what teachers and students can achieve, ... For the first time, we are insisting on results and accountability in return for our federal investment in education.
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This is a national commitment to you all here in the Gulf Coast, ... We owe each of these precious children, particularly after all they have been through, a high quality education.
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What we know is the workplace is more demanding than ever before.
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As children across America get ready to start classes, our thoughts and prayers are with the children who are living along the Gulf Coast and who may not be able to return to their schools for weeks or months. I'm working with the White House Task Force on Hurricane Katrina Response in order to find ways that we can help these children in any way we can. We will stick with these communities for as long as it takes to get them back on their feet.
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Again, the truth of the matter is we haven't paid that much attention to high school accountability.
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She doesn't want to be in the paper, ... She's all about the president. Will people think she is important and in the know for her next gig I can tell you she is and she is.
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