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When someone has the desire to go to school and has the ability but can't get into our schools, that's wrong. Education drives the economy and the quality of life.

Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.

It is fast becoming an article of political faith that financing America's public schools by way of the local property tax is a shame and a civic scandal.

Even in a time of fiscal austerity, education is more than just an expense.

The truth is, no one pays more tax than they have to.

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

Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future.

At the end of the day, we have an economy that works for the rich by cheating the poor, and unequal schools are the result of that, not the cause.

We can't afford not to fully fund education.

If people are persuaded of the need for education and the need to invest in education, they're also persuaded of the need not to waste that investment by having low-quality education but to have high-quality education.