States should not balance their budgets on the backs of students.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the importance of not sacrificing education funding to balance state budgets.
Arne Duncan's quote highlights the critical issue of prioritizing education in government spending. It asserts that students should not bear the financial burden of budgetary constraints, as their education is paramount for individual and societal growth. Cutting educational funding to solve budget issues undermines the future of students and, subsequently, the progress of society as a whole.
In practice
During a school board meeting about funding changes.
Research shows that children do better in school and are less likely to drop out when fathers are involved. Engaged parents can strengthen communities, mentor and tutor students, and demonstrate through their actions how much they value their children's education.
I believe that education is the civil rights issue of our generation. And if you care about promoting opportunity and reducing inequality, the classroom is the place to start. Great teaching is about so much more than education; it is a daily fight for social justice.
Education is the civil rights issue of our generation.
Instead of becoming a great shikari, as my mother and stepfather might have wished, I had become an incurable bookworm and was to remain one for the rest of my life.
I'm pretty omnivorous - in fact, I don't think of books in terms of genres. J. K. Rowling's 'Harry Potter' books are no more Y.A. reading, to me, than John le Carre's 'Smiley' novels are spy stories.
If a period is a stop sign, then what kind of traffic flow is created by other marks? The comma is a speed bump; the semicolon is what a driver education teacher calls a “rolling stop”; the parenthetical expression is a detour; the colon is a flashing yellow light that announces something important up ahead; the dash is a tree branch in the road.
Read. As much as you can. As deeply and widely and nourishingly and irritatingly as you can. And the good things will make you remember them, so you won't need to take notes.
Since I began presenting programmes about black history my life has become a constant impromptu focus group. I am stopped in the street by people who want to talk about the histories those documentaries explore.
The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.
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