As you look around the country there are still a significant number of states where their whole school debate is over school funding and we've been focused on the quality debate for most of the '90s.

And there should not be a limit on the creation of new public schools. We ought to expand choices for parents.

I'm very pleased with the job President Bush is doing and he's off to a terrific start.

We didn't pass any constitutional amendments that affected the executive branch while I was governor.

Very few charter schools are being created in some of the best school districts in the state. If you're an educational innovator, that isn't where the greatest need is.

Sometimes it is better to begin the journey, to get under way, then it is to sit back and wait until such time that you're convinced that all conditions are perfect and that there'll be no surprises along the route.

I wish we could have acted quicker on Detroit or other failing schools.