Bob Wise Quotations

Too often, people get elected to a body, to any office, and the first thing they do is talk about how this year, it's going to be different.

Well the first order of government is to preserve the public order and safety.

I don't believe we are, because I believe that just as 9/11 was an attack on a very populous area, terrorism also looks to see where you can go and where you're not expected.

Our goal is to provide long-term solutions that work for both the surgeons in the northern panhandle and all physicians in the state,

To me, this goes beyond disappointing. It shows that we are failing to gain ground on the very conditions we need to reverse to improve our graduation rates and produce more students who are ready for college and the workforce.

I don't believe we are, because I believe that just as 9/11 was an attack on a very populous area, terrorism also looks to see where you can go and where you're not expected.

Zip codes might be great for sorting mail, but they should not determine the quality of a child s education or success in the future workforce," said Bob Wise, president of the Alliance for Excellent Education and former governor of West Virginia. "With common standards and assessments, students, parents, and teachers will have a clear, consistent understanding of the skills necessary for students to succeed after high school and compete with peers across the state line and across the ocean.

We are continuing to carefully monitor the situation throughout McDowell and several other southern counties, ... We are ready to help wherever needed.

We've also had our anti-terrorism task force for several years. It has worked with the FBI and the ATF as well as our law enforcement.

The state's results clearly demonstrate that we still are not doing what is needed to help these older students build the reading skills they will need to deal with increasingly complex high school courses.

There will be set modifications and different graphic elements from what we do.

Reading is the heart of learning, and Illinois and the nation are in the literacy emergency room showing a flat line on the education EKG. The state's results clearly demonstrate that we still are not doing what is needed to help these older students build the reading skills they will need to deal with increasingly complex high school courses.

This is significantly higher than the number of students who stay in school, overall.

Their parents and grandparents did not face the same job market. It's estimated that by the year 2010 only eight percent of the jobs in this country will be able to be handled by a high school dropout. Approximately thirty years ago 30 percent of jobs could have been handled by a high school dropout.

It will be challenging, but not that difficult to do another one well. Implementation is the hardest part of creating a full news block. Once you get going, you?re working with broadcasters who love what they?re doing.

It helps over time to lift our national standard ... but AP doesn't reach all students. Indeed, the challenge of high schools is, first of all, reducing a dropout rate that, nationally, is almost one-third.

And that's just one year (of dropouts). Take 10 years of dropouts and you can see the even greater cost.

so that people can get to the appropriate medical provider.

It was such a challenge to do. I had to deliver the city of New York!