today shouldn t be about the past. we should be talking about how we can do better. how we can move forward. how we can give every child in america the opportunity to be a success story. these aren t somebody else s children. they re our children, all our children. that s not a joke. they re all our children. they re the kite strings that lift our national ambitions along. we have to make people realize what you re doing. what you re doing, every single child in america has enormous potential. every single child has enormous potential. but it means, means, you have to have good schools in every neighborhood. no child should be determined by their zip code. that s why i propose tripling funding for schools to eliminate disparities between rich and poor school districts. we re going to increase teacher s pay, make pre-k a requirement across the board. ladies and gentlemen, these teachers, they walk into school like my wife. she taught in the public school