Michael Bennet
Michael Bennet
Michael Farrand Bennetis an American businessman, lawyer, and Democratic politician. He is the senior senator from Colorado. He became a senator when Ken Salazar was appointed Secretary of the Interior. Bennet previously worked as managing director for the Anschutz Investment Company, chief of staff to then-Denver mayorJohn Hickenlooper, and the superintendent of Denver Public Schools...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth28 November 1964
CountryUnited States of America
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A student who has excelled in the classroom should have the opportunity to attend college and become a productive, taxpaying member of society.
As we all become increasingly reliant on social networking websites and new technologies to stay connected, it's important to remain cognizant of how private personal information and data is handled.
I think the inhabitants of the past are fighting hard to keep the rents they acquired in the 20th century.
If we, as individuals, want to keep control of our democracy - rather than have a government paid for by corporate interest checks - then we have to fight back now and make sure our system reflects the belief that people, not corporations, control our democracy.
It shouldn't take this to be able to have the conversation we're having. What you have in front of you is a confession on the part of this district that we can't provide an education at that school for the kids that are there today.
Our ability to compete for the jobs of tomorrow depends, above all, on our capacity to educate children today.
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.
You know a Senate race is obviously a much smaller deal than a presidential race. What I think makes a very hard job considerably easier when you're going to debate is if you have reminded yourself - or somebody has reminded you during the course of your campaign - that consistency is enormously important. That people don't want to hear you say one thing in one part of the state and another thing in another part of the state.
I believe there's not a harder job in the world than being a teacher, and there isn't a job with a more direct impact on the performance of our students.
I believe people I represent still aspire to the idea that our job as a generation is to provide more opportunity to the people coming after us, not less.
If teaching isn't rewarding and challenging, we're going to continue to lose our best teachers to work in other fields.
Study after study affirms what I saw in the classroom every day as superintendent of Denver Public Schools: Nothing makes a bigger difference for student learning than great teaching.