We should empower teachers to do their job by cutting wasteful spending and crippling bureaucracy, not classroom resources our educators and students need.

Every dollar spent on education should go toward helping our teachers teach and our students learn.

Our teachers are valuable, and our public policy should reflect that.

As our economy advances, our government and our laws need to modernize, too.

I want to see us add more dollars to the classroom.

I tell my students, 'When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else. This is not just a grab-bag candy game.