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PHOTOCOPY
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�Education Event
Remarkslby First Lady Hillary Rodham ,Clinton
The White House
. January 21, 1999
Good morning, and welcome to the'White House. It is a great pleasure for the President
and I to have you here this morning for this important subject and these announcements, and to
be joined by Secretary Riley, and also to have so many members of Congress with us. I want to
mention the members who are here and say that our two senators, Senator Kennedy and Senator
Inouye, will have to excuse themselves shortly, but I-am very pleased that they both could be
here. They've been long-time supporters and advocates for quality education.
We~re
also pleased that we could have joining with us from the House of
Representatives, Representatives Cummings, Edwards, Holt, Kilde, Mink, Sanchez, and
Stepan ow . And I am very grateful'that they could be here.
I also know, packing this room, literally making it standing room only, there are many
other elected officials, teachers, education leaders, and public school advocates who have taken
the timeto be here. I want to give a special word of welcome to Althur Moore, who you will
hear from in a few minutes. A former soldier who is now teaching in an inner-city school in
Baltimore, he knows firsthand the chalienges and rewards of being a teacher today.
We're alfhere because, as the President so clearly stated in the State of the Union, we
know that education is not only the key to our children's futures, but the key that will unlqck the
future of our nation in the 21 st century. We know that to create world-class schools in evelY
community, we need qualified teachers in every classroom.
In the State of the Union address, the President spoke about the urgent need to raise
educational standards, not only for our schools, but for those who teach in them. And I think all
of us are here because we want to underscore how critical his proposals are to our children-and
therefore to our future.
I can remember back, it seems now many, many years ago, but about 16 years ago, when
my husband first asked me to chair the Education Standards. Committee in Arkansas back in
1983. I traveled to schools in every comer of that state, talking to parents, teachers,
administrators, business leaders, and concerned citizens about what we needed to do to tly to
improve educational opportunities.
And in the past years, since being here in the White House, I have visited schools across
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�our country, in both wealthy and distressed neighborhoods, in rural areas and inner cities. And I
have learned, as I think none of us needs to keep learning, but we always see it in velY bold
relief when we're in schools, and that is that the most essential ingredient in any school are the
teachers.
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Quality teachers make the difference between a child achieving his or her dream score or
reaching a dead end. And when we talk about teachers, we know from our own lives those
teachers who inspired us, pushed us farther than we thought we could go, and celiainly asked
everyone in the corrimunity 'to join with them in being partners in educating childl:en. Now
nobody, I think, can negate the importance of teachers, but too often in the last several years we
haven't shown the respect and accorded the honor to our teachers that they deserve. And one of
the reasons why we are gathered today is that we want to acknowledge and recognize that our
teachers here in our country are dedicated and hard:.working and committed.
Yet in too many schools, they don't have the academic background or training that
should prepare them for the subjects they teach or the classrooms o'f childreri they face evelY
day. They are not given the help they need and the training and professional development that
will not only help them be the best teachers they can be, but will improve student achievement
and increase expectations and ~utcomes.
Studies confirm what every parent instinctively knows and what all of us, I think, would
agree-"that qualified, effective teachers produce students who excel and want to leam, and who
have a lasting impact on individual students, on schools, and even on whole communities., Now
in every other field of professional endeavor~ we do require proper training to do the job that we
expect that professional to do. And certainly when it comes to teaching, one of the most
important of all professions, we have to do more to support teachers. That's why improving
teacher quality-and expanding the pool of qualified teachers-is such an integral pmi of the
President's education agenda.
And we also have to do s0111ething else, and that is to encourage those who are not
teaching now but who have the gifts and the motivation to do so, like Mr. Moore, to enter the
teaching profession. Through efforts like recruiting outstanding new teachers for poor
neighborhoods in rural areas, lowehng class size, and helping our teachers meet high standm-ds,
the President's plan is moving our'schools-'and our nation-forwm-d.
Now he is joined in that great effort by someone with whom he and I have worked for
many years, whohas been passioI.1<l:tely devoted to education, children, and teachers, and has put
into action the principles that we believe and have evidence to prove will demonstrate that
improving the quality of the teachers will enable all of us to enjoy better educational outcomes.'
It is now my great honor and my personal pleasure to introduce the Secretmy of
Education, Richm-ci Riley.
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