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President Obama’s Comments on Education from 2/9/09 Press Conference

on Feb 10, 2009 by EEP Blog Team

The following are President Obama's comments about education at his first press conference since taking office:

"I think there are areas like education where some in my party have been too resistant to reform and have argued only money makes a difference.

"And there have been others on the Republican side or the conservative side who said, 'No matter how much money you spend, nothing makes a difference, so let's just blow up the public school systems."

"And I think that both sides are going to have to acknowledge we're going to need more money for new science labs, to pay teachers more effectively, but we're also going to need more reform, which means that we've got to train teachers more effectively, bad teachers need to be fired after being given the opportunity to train effectively, that we should experiment with things like charter schools that are innovating in the classroom, that we should have high standards."

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