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Not graduating high school on time leads to fewer chances of attending college and obtaining good paying jobs, and creates instead higher chances of incarceration and unemployment.

Unfortunately, the elimination of incentives such as parole, good time credits and funding for college courses, means that fewer inmates participate in and excel in literacy, education, treatment and other development programs.

Unemployment rates among Americans who never went to college are about double that of those who have a postsecondary education.

It makes no difference how low tuition is if the student has no source of funds to pay that tuition.

Some people are academically inclined, some vocationally and we shouldn't penalise the latter.

High school dropout rates nationally - Not enough is being done on this issue.

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

Unequal funding resources also results in unequal educational opportunity when you consider studies that show that one half of low income students who are qualified to attend college do not attend because they can't afford to.

When the students are occupied, they're not juvenile delinquents. I believe that education is a capital investment.

It is one thing to take as a given that approximately 70 percent of an entering high school freshman class will not attend college, but to assign a particular child to a curriculum designed for that 70 percent closes off for that child the opportunity to attend college.