We expect to foster a conservative governing philosophy consisting of limited government and respect for traditional American virtues.

Parents no longer believe that a one-size-fits-all model of learning meets the needs of every child. And they know other options exist, whether magnet, virtual, charter, home, faith-based, or any other combination.

It is necessary and critical for states to have flexibility to determine how to identify and improve schools.

Where conflicts are identified, they will be resolved.

As you get older, you should be better at coaching. You learn your lessons. You keep thinking and learning about it, you should be better than you.

One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.

A good teacher who can take the zero pay and help kids develop physically, emotionally, socially, is literally an angel.

Growing up in a group home, and with an undiagnosed learning disability to boot, the odds of success were not on my side. But when I joined the high school football team, I learned the value of discipline, focus, persistence, and teamwork - all skills that have proven vital to my career as a C.E.O. and social entrepreneur.