In America, your zip code or your socioeconomic status should never determine the quality of your education.

States should not balance their budgets on the backs of students.

The cost of college should never discourage anyone from going after a valuable degree.

There's so much that we're doing wrong today. And studies show we're one of three countries that doesn't invest more in disadvantaged communities.

To be clear, we the Department of Education want curriculum to be driven by the local level. We are by law prohibited from directing curriculum. We don't have a curriculum department.

I think it's my job to tell the truth.

City Year is taking on some of the toughest work in education.