Former secretary of state Condoleezza Rice touts Gov. Jindal’s education reforms at summit

Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice touted Gov. Bobby Jindal‘s efforts to reform Louisiana’s school before an audience of educators, business leaders and government officials attending the Education Reform Summit on Wednesday. The summit focused on improving education in Louisiana.

“Education is the way to upward mobility,” Rice said during a discussion moderated by journalist Campbell Brown. “I believe education is the key to the core of our democracy.”

She also said she believes the state of public education today is an issue of national security; without a quality K-12 education system, students will be unable to fill necessary job positions.

“Those children being poorly educated will not be able to contribute to the national wealth,” she said. “We have to solve our education problem in order to compete with the rest of the world, but we must do that in a distinctly American way.”

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