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Instead of just giving lip service to improving our schools, I will actually put the kids first and the teachers union behind in giving our kids better teachers, better options and better choices for a better future.

I want to work with the teachers' union. But as I said out there, we have to put the kids first and we are letting down a generation of California children. It's not acceptable.

Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work.

I am not going to make any commitments to the teachers union to do anything until they do something that's other than in their own self- interest. And everything they have done so far is in their self-interests, and that's it.

I've made a lifetime commitment to the union movement and to public 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.

While unions did not play a part in my family life when I was being brought up, my early years were most certainly spent in a working-class community.

I give the children education.

Each year, I say I'm going to go to school next year. It's inevitable that I'll end up getting my education.