If you turned on the TV this morning or sometime today, you probably

saw something about the Chicago teacher's union strike. I'd like to

make a couple of comments about that because it does matter. I've

known Rahm Emanuel for years. He's a former colleague of mine. Rahm

and I have not agreed on every issue or on a lot of issues, but Mayor

Emanuel is right today in saying that this teacher's union strike is

unnecessary and wrong. We know that Rahm is not going to support our

campaign, but on this issue and this day we stand with Mayor Rahm

Emanuel.

We stand with the children and we stand with the families and the

parents of Chicago because education reform, that's a bipartisan

issue. This does not have to divide the two parties. And so, we were

going to ask, where does President Obama stand? Does he stand with his

former Chief of Staff Mayor Rahm Emanuel, with the children and the

parents, or does he stand with the union? On issues like this, we need

to speak out and be really clear. In a Romney-Ryan administration we

will not be ambiguous, we will stand with education reform, we will

champion bipartisan education reforms. This is a critical linchpin to

the future of our country, to our economy, to make sure that our

children go to the best possible school, and that education reforms

revolve around the parents and the child, not the special interest

group. This is something that's critical for all of us.