Author: Michael Bennet

Quotes

A student who has excelled in the classroom should have the opportunity to attend college and become a productive, taxpaying member of society.

A student who has excelled in the classroom should have the opportunity to attend college and become a productive, taxpaying member of society.

- Michael Bennet

Ensuring all kids have access to an effective, talented teacher needs to be a national priority.

Ensuring all kids have access to an effective, talented teacher needs to be a national priority.

- Michael Bennet

To get enough of the teachers we need, teaching has to be a great job where talented people are supported and rewarded.

To get enough of the teachers we need, teaching has to be a great job where talented people are supported and rewarded.

- Michael Bennet

If teaching isn't rewarding and challenging, we're going to continue to lose our best teachers to work in other fields.

If teaching isn't rewarding and challenging, we're going to continue to lose our best teachers to work in other fields.

- Michael Bennet

While NCLB drove important progress on transparency and data disaggregation, I think it's clear that the status quo in public education is not working for our kids or our country.

While NCLB drove important progress on transparency and data disaggregation, I think it's clear that the status quo in public education is not working for our kids or our country.

- Michael Bennet

We've got a lot of work to do: not only on education, but on the economy, on our tax code, and on reducing our crushing debt.

We've got a lot of work to do: not only on education, but on the economy, on our tax code, and on reducing our crushing debt.

- Michael Bennet

Health care is much the same - the status quo is, by all measures, failing far too many people - and we must not shrink from the challenge.

Health care is much the same - the status quo is, by all measures, failing far too many people - and we must not shrink from the challenge.

- Michael Bennet

My time at the Denver Public Schools taught me there is no harder, or more important, job than being a teacher.

My time at the Denver Public Schools taught me there is no harder, or more important, job than being a teacher.

- Michael Bennet

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