We at the Department of Education are going to provide technical assistance; I've committed $14 million to show states how they might meet this more sophisticated approach.

We at the Department of Education are going to provide technical assistance; I've committed $14 million to show states how they might meet this more sophisticated approach.

I think it'd be useful for parents to know kind of what is the culture of an institution.

And I think that we in America need to understand that many schools need improvement, and particularly with respect to how they're serving minority children.

We want to obviously foster a relationship that we're a partner with states; that we all share the same goals of closing the achievement gap, just as the Congress does; and that we're practical and sophisticated enough to understand what they're talking about.

It's a hard process to navigate... to figure out where your kid ought to go to college.

My understanding is that Kansas, Massachusetts, they've been more pioneers on the special education side.