My focus is mainly on education. I believe education made all the difference for me, and it is certainly going to make all the difference for other children, too.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Education is very important to me, as is helping children.
Education has fundamentally changed my life. It's perhaps the mission of my life. I'm wed to it in a very powerful and personal way. And I chose the pathway that I believe could make me the most significant on changing the outcomes that we see now in North Carolina.
I think education is one of the greatest tools for most kids not only to expand their book knowledge, but their ability to experience new things - I think it opens more doors than any other experience I can think of.
I've always believed in the importance of education and continuing to learn throughout every stage of life.
I fell through the holes in the educational system. But education is still a way to change a life.
I hope to focus on what I'm passionate about because I think I'd do them best job on them - education, urban education, women and children's issues and literacy.
I've spent the better part of my career in politics and public policy working on and fighting for education reforms.
I started my career in parent education with the idea that we needed to let our kids go. I believed that parents were suffocating for their children. There was no room for individuality and personhood.
I fervently believe that education is the key to moving forward.
I look back and see the kids who made it through school - it made a huge difference in their lives, which made me believe in the power of public education and what it can do for individuals and communities and the state.
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