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The promise of education reform can never be fulfilled without adequate funding, and by shortchanging our schools, President Bush is breaking his promise to our children.

Strong advocacy for education, health care and worker safety will be indispensable if they are to get their fair share of President Bush's austere budget for the next fiscal year.

Education should be one of our top funding priorities; talking about it does not help the teachers and students who desperately need promises fulfilled.

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.

Trying to balance the budget through defense cuts is both counterproductive and impossible.

Likewise, education can direct people toward good or evil ends. When education is based on a fundamentally distorted worldview, the results are horrific.

When I was superintendent of Denver Public Schools, I saw the potential of some of our best and brightest students cut short, punished for the actions of others - kids who had grown up and done well in our school system, and kids who know no other home but America. This is unacceptable.

Education is not Democrat versus Republican. It's about doing the right things for the right reason for our kids.