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The government has convinced parents that at some point it's no longer their responsibility. And in fact, they force them, in many respects, to turn their children over to the public education system and wrest control from them and block them out of participation of that. That has to change or education will not improve in this country.

Every child should have the opportunity to receive a quality education.

If we don't empower families to be able to have a quality education, then their children - for the first time in American history, truly the first time - will not have the same economic opportunities.

Along with a livable wage, many parents are desperate for quality affordable child care.

Some parents do not send their children to school because they don't know its importance at all.

What good is telling America's children that they will have equal opportunity for education if they don't have the skills that will even get them to the point of benefiting from education, because they didn't have the child care, the health care that would enable them to grow as strong and constructive human beings?

I believe that we parents must encourage our children to become educated, so they can get into a good college that we cannot afford.

Too many vital education dollars that should be spent in the classroom are bouncing around in the federal bureaucracy.

As a former teacher and a mother and grandmother, I know firsthand the importance of a quality education.