"Anything below our current funding level does violence to the program of educational improvement we're trying to implement," he said.
The question is whether this promising change will settle into real educational improvement for students in the country's largest school system.
He was a prominent figure in Chicago's social, educational, and civic improvements.
Will more money poured into classrooms for the poor really pay off in educational improvement?
He wanted to be talking about economic recovery, educational improvement and tax cuts for the middle class in the days leading up to Tuesday's primary.
The need for educational improvements is real but, by themselves, they are doomed to fail.
The act provides more than $300 million over the next three years to raise teachers' salaries and make other educational improvements.
His administration advocated educational improvements and fiscal support to the public school system.
If educational improvement is a top priority on the city's agenda, the contract must stand.
Foster educational improvement at the State and local levels.