I feel like in America we don't have a kid problem. You think about all these issues that these kids are dealing with we have an adult problem. We have adults that do not place the priority on our kids to get a valuable education.
In more than 20 years I've spent studying the issue I have yet to hear a convincing argument that college football has anything do with what is presumably the primary purpose of higher education: academics.
Immigration is not the top issue for Latinos. Latinos are like every other American - economy jobs healthcare education.
If you take any world problem any issue on the planet the solution to that problem certainly includes education. In education the roadblock is the laptop.
If there is something I would like to do as President of the General Assembly it is to place more emphasis on the issue of education which enables a better life for women.
One of the biggest development issues in the world is the education of girls. In the United States and Europe it has been accepted but not in Africa and the developing countries.
Most Hispanics are concerned with the same issues other Americans are - the economy jobs education. Similar to Main Street America.
Health and education are always issues.
I think the most important issue for all of us is our economy and jobs and creating opportunities for young people to be able to get the education that you need to be able to afford to go to college.
I hope to focus on what I'm passionate about because I think I'd do them best job on them - education urban education women and children's issues and literacy.