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ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank...
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BOB ELLIOTT
CARL WILLIAMS We need three more elementary schools, two more intermediates and another high school. We never have...
JEFF ALEXANDER The way to improve schools is to give parents real options by providing parents with full school cho...
ALLAN PARKER I'm interested in what their vision for the high school will be. I think we spent, as a committee, w...
ED CAFASSO I can't speak for the board, but I think their intention is because 1,600 students would be quite...
JAN LANTZ Small schools are a wonderful thing for students and for community involvement in the schools. An el...
DAVID KERN Education has been shortchanged in the legislative process. It's time legislators step up to their c...
LINDA BRIDGES California's charter schools continue to be at the forefront of successful public education reform; ...
CAPRICE YOUNG In Greenville, we were blessed to have lots of youth arts programs. I changed middle schools to go t...
DANIELLE BROOKS In general, the private schools have run away with the high-quality players. Every year we've lost h...
PATRICK ALVIN Los Angeles Unified has quickly become the nationwide leader in promoting innovative public school o...
CAPRICE YOUNG Our goal is to say that, as additional pots of money come along, charter schools are seen as legitim...
JACKIE WILLIAMS The interest is so intense at some Southern California schools that students might start rioting if ...
JOANNE ARGYRES Right now, we are focused on Mendenhall and Meadows elementary schools. We also have a group of sixt...
KATIE KABAGE Second, when comparing private school and public school test scores, it's like apples and orange...
DENNIS MOORE [? In Mount Vernon, the sixth-grade will move from the elementary schools to the middle school next ...
BRENDA SMITH We had 500 students attending workshops from 20 middle school and high schools throughout the Arizon...
JASON CARNEY
When you introduce competition into the public school system, most studies show that schools start t... BILL COSBY I was born in Champaign in 1918. From the neighborhood elementary and intermediate schools, I went t...
JAMES TOBIN Students need to take more college preparatory courses in high school, and schools need to begin for...
RAY GRASSHOFF
I went to private school for two years, then Aptos Middle School, and I finished at McAteer. Several... AISHA TYLER I've taught hearing-impaired kids at public schools for 17 years. You might have two or three deaf k...
LYNNE COX I'm quite proud of them. They did extremely well, not only against the small schools, but also the l...
DENISE MOORE It's now the largest high school bowling program in the country, based on figures from the National ...
RANDY ALLEN They allow schools to fit to kids instead of kids fitting to schools. Mandatory school assignment pr...
JEANNE ALLEN
When nearly a third of our high school students do not graduate on time with their peers, we have wo... CHRISTINE GREGOIRE
Charter schools are public schools that operate, to a certain extent, outside the system. They have ... MAGGIE GALLAGHER
If we allow public funds to be used to support our relatively benign, morally grounded schools, we w... JONATHAN KOZOL In many countries, schools are preparing students to participate in a democratic environment; yet sc...
ADORA SVITAK
The successes of the LGBT civil rights movement and the more prominent role openly gay people are pl... DAN SAVAGE At first, we'll be centered toward children ages 9 to 18, and some college kids. We hope some high s...
BRIAN SKY The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m...
ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt...
ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank...
ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ...
ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate...
ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ...
ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices.
ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag...
ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future.
ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea...
ANDREW TO The reality for many Muslim students in public schools is very difficult. It's highly stressful.
INGRID MATTSON
It's time to update traditional public schools, charter schools, home schools, online schools an... BOBBY JINDAL These schools have seen a drop in suspensions and expulsions, a rise in GPAs, a rise in test scores,...
JOSEPH KRETOVICS Our middle schools went up double digits for the most part, which is outstanding. We have elementary...
DANIELLE CLARK The public schools here are wonderful and we have the opportunity to keep them wonderful. That's why...
JANET BERRY School reform efforts have too often overlooked a powerful constituency for school change - the stud...
WENDY PURIEFOY What's really best, do we pour a lot of resources into these high poverty schools, or have heterogen...
JEANNE COLLINS Arizona has excellent medical schools, both public and private, and it is critical that we create an...
DOUG DUCEY And eventually, if the children in the two schools start to see themselves as a whole unit less (...
KATHLEEN MCCARTHY I went to eight different schools my first nine years of school.
VANESSA MINNILLO I went to eight different schools my first nine years of school.
VANESSA LACHEY
When I was growing up, in L.A., I went to these schools, Fairfax High School, Bancroft Junior High S... FLEA We met last year and talked about the state requirements (on elementary and middle schools), and we ...
SHARON ANDERSON I think it's counter to the mission of the public schools to run the (home-school) programs.
GARY PETERSON Because of the complexity and difficulty of snow plowing at the high school, the arrangement worked ...
FRANK CONNOLLY
I attended private Catholic schools in Paris and Los Angeles through high school. NATALIE MASSENET My view and the ACLU view on suppression of political speech in school is that the public schools ha...
MICHAEL STEINBERG I've been kind of in favor of a new high school, but I can't see having two high schools with 500 ki...
KAREN EYRICH I think he's absolutely right. We have a problem in our high schools.
CONNIE JONES At small high schools, there often aren't enough students interested in a particular course to make ...
CHERYL VEDOE
My education began in the public schools of Wilmington. During most of these years, from about age 1... DANIEL NATHANS
The public education landscape is enriched by having many options - neighborhood public schools, mag... RANDI WEINGARTEN We go to high schools and give students the opportunity to earn community service hours. They end up...
GARRY DAIGLER We would become the only state in the United States to prohibit the admission of undocumented studen...
CLAIRE GUTHRIE GASTANAGA This is the first time the elementary students who have enrolled in READ meet their high school ment...
ERIN MARTIN Our long-range goal, once we get high-school students off the yellow buses, is to start looking at a...
DAVE ANDERSON I think it's an avenue of educating children that just are not able to succeed in traditional home-s...
LISA CARLTON Students participating at the LADWP Science Bowl are among the best high school science scholars in ...
GEORGE ROFAIL
Frankly, I'm not sure how far I would get if I attended public school today. It's not just t... ELI BROAD I grew up going to public school, and they were huge public schools. I went to a school that had 3,2...
P. J. O'ROURKE AVID changes how public schools teach. It provides struggling students, kids in the middle with inte...
LAURA ANDERSON The CIM represents a high level of achievement, and I appreciate the hard work it takes for students...
SUSAN CASTILLO We really think it is a good thing for scientists to spend a little bit of their time either in the ...
THOMAS R. CECH (Friday's) turnout for the middle schools was tremendous. Probably 80 middle school coaches showed u...
PETE EUZARRAGA This is good for the schools because Florida and Georgia schools don't usually play Mississippi scho...
KATHLEEN THOMPSON
In many of the high schools in the South Bronx, more children will end up in prison than will go to ... JONATHAN KOZOL If there is no high school right away, there is no need to have an administrator over three schools.
PAUL ASFOUR If you want a good education, go to private schools. If you can't afford it, tough luck. You can...
PAUL LEPAGE Based on a thorough analysis of the five-year academic results at all 2,850 schools appearing in the...
PETER COWLEY It is one of New York City's best public elementary schools.
CLARA HEMPHILL The institutions the students designated to get score reports have received notice, as well as their...
JENNIFER TOPIEL I am not directly opposed to the fact that they are recruiting high schools, but the means they go a...
PETER YOUNG The broader issue is there are many U.S. conservative Christians who feel that public schools have b...
CHARLES HAYNES
The discovery I made was that, really, in America, if you went to high school in our country, it doe... WINNIE HOLZMAN Now, there's absolutely no denying the need for a greater investment in public schools.
KATHY COOK The next step is to recognize that public schools all across urban America are in serious crisis, an...
CLINT BOLICK
The majority of the high schools and the public schools in N.Y.C. don't even have band programs.... WYNTON MARSALIS When kids are looking at schools and judging what schools they might go to ... it's sort of a compet...
BARRY BROWN I have been employed at Mounds Schools for the past 23 years as a high school principal, coach, and ...
DENNIS CAMPBELL I have been employed at Mounds Schools for the past 23 years as a high school principal, coach, and ...
DENNIS CAMPBELL So many students begin high school saying they want to go to college.
JEANNIE OAKES There is no perfect or ideal size for a high school. Top-level student achievement can be seen in hi...
JUDY JEFFREY For many districts who are planning a high school, it will be the only new high school they are goin...
DAVID M. MARONEY I have taught economics in that program to similar students for the past five years, and [at the cen...
DR. STEPHEN KAIFA
In elementary school, we all say, 'If you don't have anything nice to say, then don't sa... NICK VUJICIC
It appears that some school officials, teachers, and parents have assumed that religious expression ... BILL CLINTON They don't have to spend their money to build the schools and they obligate future homeowners for th...
ROGER DEARING More and more states are looking at voucher programs, or trying to organize public schools on a priv...
CHRIS LUBIENSKI Schools recruit band directors like they do football coaches. The big dream is to direct a high scho...
BOB ELLIOTT
There is nothing so uncertain as a sure thing. 
I found out that if you are going to win games, you had better be ready to adapt. 
I found out that if you are going to win games, you had better be ready to adapt. 
Citizenship comes first today in our crowded world ... No man can enjoy the privileges of education ... 