Janet Napolitano
Janet Napolitano
Janet Ann Napolitanois an American politician, lawyer, and university administrator who served as the 21st Governor of Arizona from 2003 to 2009 and United States Secretary of Homeland Security from 2009 to 2013, under President Barack Obama. She has been president of the University of California system since September 2013, shortly after she resigned as Secretary of Homeland Security...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth29 November 1957
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
Today in America, we are trying to prepare students for a high tech world of constant change, but we are doing so by putting them through a school system designed in the early 20th Century that has not seen substantial change in 30 years.
Public schools were designed as the great equalizers of our society - the place where all children could have access to educational opportunities to make something of themselves in adulthood.
If American schooling is inadequate now, just imagine how much more obsolete it will be when today's kindergarten students graduate from high school in just 12 years.
Our school facilities must be repaired, and our teachers need to be trained and treated as artisans of a noble profession.
As we move deeper into the 21st Century, the need for a quality public school system will become more of an economic issue and more of a civil rights issue. Because, as our economy relies more on brains and less on brawn, the only way everyone can secure all the blessings of liberty is to receive a quality education.
The rule of law has become victim, and the people who are experiencing it the most are those communities along the border, ... It is a very, very big problem for us.
Right now we are not on a plane list for the next couple of days so that gives us the opportunity to focus on the people who are here,
Both federal governments let us down - there doesn't seem to be any sense of urgency,
We must prepare young people for a brain-centered economy whose one constant is rapid change. The predominant classroom model a single teacher lecturing to 20, 30, or even more students reflects the production-line model of the Industrial Age, not the technological demands of our Information Age.
It doesn't make sense that Arizona's prices should suddenly jump up higher than California's, ... Arizonans deserve real answers.
It doesn't make any sense to me to start on the interior of the forest if you haven't first protected around the areas where the communities are.
I think I had pretty clearly telegraphed that I was going to be proclaiming (approval of all ballot measures) before I went to Mexico. Anybody could have read those tea leaves.
We have an obligation to enforce the border, ... it's important for the people of this state to understand, your voices are being heard in Washington, D.C.
to combat the growing devastation caused by the crimes associated with illegal immigration.