"The unions say 'last hired - first fired,', we say hire and fire based on merit. We want the best and brightest in the classroom."

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I'm going to insist on making sure that we've got decent funding, that we've got enough teachers, that we've got computers in the classroom, but unless you turn off the television set and get over a certain anti-intellectualism that I think pervades some low-income communities, our children are not going to achieve.

— Barack Obama