The Legislature has a solemn duty to provide equitable education.

Equity comes from the state providing enough funding for its requirements. The state must meet its obligation for funding education.

If District 7 is money is going to the northeast project, and then it's not completed, we come out on the losing end.

It's a big threat. We're losing 6 percent of our students each year.

Public education has a duty to educate all our kids. If we don't educate all the kids that come into this nation, this country will go down quickly.

The first duty of a government is to give education to the people