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Our youth deserve the opportunity to complete their high school and college education, free of early parenthood. Their future children deserve the opportunity to grow up in financially and emotionally stable homes. Our communities benefit from healthy, productive, well-prepared young people.

The youth is the hope of our future.

We are shaping young kids to be leaders in their communities and also to be healthier.

The biggest communities in which young people now reside are online communities.

I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.

It is the local community that needs to own the commitment to education.

In a world where people are hungry for quick fixes and sound bites, for instant gratification, there's no patience for the long, slow rebuilding process: implementing after-school programs, hiring more community workers to act as mentors, adding more job training programs in marginalized areas.

I want to help find opportunities for people to become active participants in their communities.

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.