Arizona is a national leader in school choice with both charter schools and tuition tax credits giving parents and their children more school choices than ever before.

Despite Arizona's remarkable growth in recent years, we have met the current federal health standards for ozone pollution and the Environmental Protection Agency recently approved our dust control plan.

Arizona now has one of the most innovative systems of financing school construction in the nation.

During the last regular session and the most recent special session, measures that I see as little more than Band-Aids were applied to three health programs in the state.

We emerged from the events of September 11 more steadfast in our beliefs, more courageous in our actions and more determined to protect our values than ever before.

In twenty years, the Lottery has raised over $1.4 billion. It has been run successfully and efficiently.

At the end of the day, the most overwhelming key to a child's success is the positive involvement of parents.