Five-Day Tour to Highlight South’s Schools
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — Education Secretary Richard W. Riley began a five-day, five-state bus trip Monday to visit schools in the South.
“The South has made enormous strides in education, and we have economic prosperity to show for it,” Riley told a cheering crowd gathered at the airport here.
Riley, whose first-time bus tour is to include a stop in South Carolina, where he once was governor, said the South has emerged as a national trendsetter.
“Many more children are in Head Start. More high school students are taking the core curriculum to get ready for college. And the South has led the nation in reducing the high school dropout rate,” Riley said.
He praised a new generation of Southern governors for what he called “pro-education agendas.”
“If ever there was a time to be investing in the future, that time is now,” he said.
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