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
My time at the Denver Public Schools taught me there is no harder, or more important, job than being a teacher.
I've focused on making sure we have talented teachers and principals in our schools through proposals like the GREAT Teachers and Principals Act and the Presidential Teachers Corps.
Teacher compensation isn't the only factor in cultivating great teaching. Other important priorities include changing how we measure student performance, providing more flexibility to teacher-preparation programs, and improving how we train and support principals.
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.
If teaching isn't rewarding and challenging, we're going to continue to lose our best teachers to work in other fields.
To get enough of the teachers we need, teaching has to be a great job where talented people are supported and rewarded.
Ensuring all kids have access to an effective, talented teacher needs to be a national priority.
Our ability to compete for the jobs of tomorrow depends, above all, on our capacity to educate children today.
I think if we can get people focused to do what we need to do to keep our kids from being stuck with this debt that they didn't accrue, you might be surprised at how far we can move this conversation.
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.
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.
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.
Social networking websites like Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr provide an unparalleled ability for people to stay connected in new and unique ways.
When I was superintendent of Denver Public Schools, I saw the potential of some of our best and brightest students cut short, punished for the actions of others - kids who had grown up and done well in our school system, and kids who know no other home but America. This is unacceptable.