Selected Remarks of President Barack Obama
A Complete and Competitive American Education
US Hispanic Chamber of Commerce
March 10, 2009
Washington, DC
"We have innovative principals, passionate teachers, gifted students, and parents whose only priority is their child's education. We have a legacy of excellence, and an unwavering belief that our children should climb higher than we did."
"Far too little has changed. Not because we are lacking sound ideas or sensible plans ... Rather, it is because politics and ideology have too often trumped our progress."
"I am calling on states that are setting their standards far below where they ought to be to stop low-balling expectations for our kids. That is what we will help them do later this year when we finally make No Child Left Behind live up to its name by ensuring not only that teachers and principals get the funding they need, but that the money is tied to results."
"Our Recovery Act will ensure that hundreds of thousands of teachers and school personnel are not laid off - because those Americans are not only doing jobs they cannot afford to lose they are rendering a service our nation cannot be denied."
Rosa sat so Martin could walk...Martin walked so Obama could run...Obama ran so our children can fly.