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“Teaching is not a job anyone just falls into. It is mastery of a craft: in fact, the craft that enables all the others.”
“President Biden and I are determined to lower costs for student loan borrowers... no matter how many times Republican elected officials try to stop us.”
“A college degree can change the trajectory of a student's life.”
“Moving forward, it is on us to make sure education jobs are ones that educators don't want to leave.”
“I would be interested in pulling whatever levers I can pull as secretary of Education to ensure that, especially if we're giving out financial aid and loans, that we're doing it for institutions that are providing value.”
“When it comes to education, there is far more that unites parents across America than divides us.”
“I know that there are some folks making decisions that are less based on science and more on their ideology. But at the end of the day, our educators, their job is to make sure our students are OK.”
“As a parent, I know how difficult it was for students to learn virtually and for parents to juggle childcare and their own work.”
“We're holding colleges accountable. We're introducing gainful employment rules, which mean that you have to show the return on investment that students are getting when they're paying for this education.”
“Our higher education system is broken.”
“I respect differences of opinion.”
“If I've learned anything in my career as an educator, it's this: With the right support, students are remarkably resilient.”
“From Day One of President Joe Biden's tenure, we have made authentic parent engagement a top priority, not only embedding the needs of parents and families into most of our programs, but also creating new opportunities for parents to engage directly with the Department of Education and with their own school communities.”
“Let's confer prestige on colleges' breaking cycles of poverty.”
“In this country, we're okay with taking into account wealth and lineage and legacy status, but to look at racial balance in school, to make sure that there are diverse learning environments, that people have a problem with, that we're not taking that lightly either.”
“Our students need additional support. They need smaller class sizes. They need tutors. They need after-school programs.”
“Higher education is supposed to be a valuable investment in your future.”
“In Connecticut, I started an effort called 'Learn Together, Grow Together CT' where we elevated schools using innovative solutions to solve common problems - and shared those practices with other schools.”
“In some cases, in order for women to be heard, they have to win in a championship. They have to be at the top of the game for someone to listen to them, where the men just show up. That's a problem. We have to change that.”
“I don't have too much respect for people that are misbehaving in public and then acting as if they know what's right for kids.”