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The public education landscape is enriched by having many options - neighborhood public schools, magnet schools, community schools, schools that focus on career and technical education, and even charter schools.

Many more schools can be outstanding.

Education technology and school construction go together. Modernization, updating education facilities, and making a capital investment in education are all included.

In Boston they have gone from large autonomous high schools to smaller schools within the same building.

School is something that you learn - reading and writing. Education is what you learn from the family, from the environment, from the community.

I've got a very deep and abiding passion about education being far more than buildings and textbooks; it's what children bring into school with them.

As we segregate by income into different communities, schools in lower-income areas have fewer resources than ever.

It always surprises me when donors who operate successful businesses assume that just building a school structure means that a community now has access to education. When creating a business, does renting an office space now mean that you're producing goods, training staff and generating revenues?

There are essential elements for our public schools to fully develop the potential of both students and educators. They should be centers of community, where students, families and educators work together to support student success. They should foster collaboration.

Charter schools are public schools that operate, to a certain extent, outside the system. They have more control over their teachers, curriculum and resources. They also have less money than public schools.