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
What I came away with last week was a very strong sense that the kids had been marooned up there. They're in a place where opportunities continue to shrink and were going to continue to shrink and that creates a frame of reference for what it is possible to achieve. It begins to lower the standards of expectation for your life.
I think the inhabitants of the past are fighting hard to keep the rents they acquired in the 20th century.
We've got a lot of work to do: not only on education, but on the economy, on our tax code, and on reducing our crushing debt.
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.
Often times, political games prevent senators from even beginning to debate some of the most important issues.
Our goal was to not let them have any runs. We let them have one run and that's what you get. They're that good, they can strike so fast.
Our ability to compete for the jobs of tomorrow depends, above all, on our capacity to educate children today.
If teaching isn't rewarding and challenging, we're going to continue to lose our best teachers to work in other fields.
My time at the Denver Public Schools taught me there is no harder, or more important, job than being a teacher.
Social networking websites like Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr provide an unparalleled ability for people to stay connected in new and unique ways.
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.
In my mind, there is no reason public school reform should be a partisan issue.
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.