I went to nine different universities and never paid a nickle of my own money. My wife got many scholarships. We are children of the United States.
I'd put the ninety-nine billion dollars - whatever it is - that's being appropriated for the Air Force and the Navy, and I'd put it into schools. I'd put it into traveling scholarships.
People like to say don't abort, adopt. But I'm saying don't strip, scholarship.
The federal government's done a very good job about tying goodies to our compliance with federal programs, whether it's the Department of Education, whether it's Obamacare with its generous Medicare and Medicaid dollars and the like.
Private scholarships for students at hopeless schools.
The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has been in existence for most of this century.
I'd love DonorsChoose.org to become a place where teachers can post innovative, out-of-the-box projects that they can't get funding for traditionally.
One thing that gets missed a lot is that DonorsChoose is merely a place where teachers post wish lists. That doesn't do justice to the level of innovation that we see taking place on our site.
The state of California has no business subsidizing intellectual curiosity.
