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I strongly believe that more money needs to be spent in the classroom.

We need to increase education budgets.

I am going to put money into education at the expense of other programs.

Part of Washington keeping its promises is a focus on directing more dollars into our local classrooms.

As a society, we can and should invest more money in education.

We can pay teachers a hundred thousand dollars a year, and we'll do nothing to improve our schools as long as we keep the A, B, C, D, F grading system.

Every dollar spent on education should go toward helping our teachers teach and our students learn.

You cannot simply put more money into the same system and get better results, so we will need to reform and innovate in the delivery of education.

The opponents of my budget propose taking $200 million out of our classrooms and instead spending it on a larger school employee pay raise. Our focus should be on making sure our children come first.