July 16, 2009

“If we don’t rededicate ourselves to education with the same attitude Americans have applied to going to the moon and fighting wars, the results will be profound. We will gradually lose our successful workforce. Our ability to innovate and create the next generation of companies and jobs in California – to create the next eBay, the next Google, the next Genentech – will diminish.” - Meg Whitman

California spends about half of its budget – around $50 billion - on K-12 education every year, but our schools are stuck near the bottom of every performance measure. This is unfair to taxpayers, to parents, and especially to our children. Meg knows we can do much better, and as Governor will:

• Give students and parents more choice and control by expanding charter schools
• Reward success by giving more pay to high-performing teachers
• Make California’s schools the nation’s leaders in Math, Science and the other bedrock skills needed to succeed in the 21^st century economy