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.
It had been only through books-at best, no more than vicarious cultural transfusions-that I had managaed to keep myself alive in a negatively vital way. Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.
Being a librarian certainly helped me with my writing because it made me even more of a reader, and I was always an enthusiastic reader. Writing and reading seem to me to be different aspects of a single imaginative act.
Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift.
What do we older folks live for if not for the care of the young, to teach and train them?
Reading is an exercise in empathy; an exercise in walking in someone else's shoes for a while.
I want to use television not only to entertain, but to help people lead better lives.
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