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California's charter schools continue to be at the forefront of successful public education reform; ...
CAPRICE YOUNG![]()
The public education landscape is enriched by having many options - neighborhood public schools, mag...
RANDI WEINGARTEN I believe public education is the new civil rights battle and I support charter schools.
ANDREW CUOMO Our goal is to say that, as additional pots of money come along, charter schools are seen as legitim...
JACKIE WILLIAMS![]()
Charter schools are not a panacea.
BOB BECKEL I expect there will be more public charter schools.
BETSY DEVOS![]()
It's time to update traditional public schools, charter schools, home schools, online schools an...
BOBBY JINDAL You look at public education system, charter schools, infrastructure, in so many ways New Orleans ha...
DREW BREES![]()
Charter schools are public schools that operate, to a certain extent, outside the system. They have ...
MAGGIE GALLAGHER![]()
An early attempt at education choice was charter schools. These were meant to attract the best and b...
BOB BECKEL If Toledo Public Schools want to increase student enrollment, they must first look at themselves. Th...
CHRISTOPHER MYERS The problem is that the two sides didn't have enough sitting-down time to work out what are the need...
ADRIAN M. FENTY In communities where there are many charter schools those communities have had very negative effects...
JODY SIEGLE D.C. charter schools lead the pack in terms of market share.
JEANNE ALLEN![]()
Charter schools have a far higher proportion of teachers who are not certified.
MAGGIE GALLAGHER It's important to recognize that charter schools are public schools, and that it is better for your ...
JEANNE ALLEN Los Angeles Unified has quickly become the nationwide leader in promoting innovative public school o...
CAPRICE YOUNG The governor has to be very firm in his commitment to charter schools.
BRIAN BACKSTROM More and more states are looking at voucher programs, or trying to organize public schools on a priv...
CHRIS LUBIENSKI By making transportation more convenient for our parents by reducing the threshold from a mile to th...
JANET WALSH The McKay program operates in almost-identical fashion to the Opportunity Scholarship program, and i...
CLINT BOLICK Education has been shortchanged in the legislative process. It's time legislators step up to their c...
LINDA BRIDGES In 'The Founders,' his new book about top charter schools, Richard Whitmire traces both the ...
CAMPBELL BROWN Its clear that as long as this demand continues, then charter schools will continue to thrive,
GARY LARSON The first attention it's getting is from the new charter. No one in the middle schools even asked fo...
JOSEPH SUINA The money for charter schools isn't provided by the state, it's provided by the local district. If t...
JODY SIEGLE We have a law that allows us to establish charter schools here in this state. We ought to get going ...
CRAIG BENSON![]()
The 'niche' effect of charter schools guarantees a swift and vicious deepening of class and ...
JONATHAN KOZOL Republicans get a lot of money from big business, but they are not tied to the union dollar. As a re...
JUAN WILLIAMS![]()
Sex education classes in our public schools are promoting incest
JIMMY SWAGGART About half my work in education is U.S. political reform around school districts and charter schools...
REED HASTINGS The discrepancy there is that alternative schools were previously exempted from the grading process....
JOE GREEN In most states, this was a matter of political compromise. Because there wasn't support across the b...
ALEX JOHNSTON We are going to be able to have rapid growth of the high-quality charter schools that are doing very...
CAPRICE YOUNG![]()
Arizona is a national leader in school choice with both charter schools and tuition tax credits givi...
JANE D. HULL Before the meeting, we had revised our contract based on talks with (Imagine Schools and the charter...
DALE FRIEDMAN This problem that you have in Houston right now is the poster child for why we in the Legislature wa...
FLORENCE SHAPIRO![]()
The strongest results were in Florida and Texas. In just one year in a Texas charter school, an aver...
MAGGIE GALLAGHER The public schools, trade schools and research schools, these are the coal mines of the 21st century...
WILLIAM SCRANTON![]()
And then the conditions of safety - or lack of safety - for teachers in public schools, and the disp...
WARREN BEATTY When we first mention charter schools, people snicker and scoff, but we are finding more and more pe...
WAYNE SISCO He has ignored the public school system, which serves 40,000 students, while concentrating on the re...
DAN SIEGEL We are going to fight this thing all the way. The district is breaking the law and it's breaking its...
GARY LARSON The next step is to recognize that public schools all across urban America are in serious crisis, an...
CLINT BOLICK I think charter schools certainly have proven that there are some wonderful things they have to offe...
CATHERINE COLLINS It's parents who most commonly start charter schools. So the community gets to decide what kind of s...
PHIL ANDREWS![]()
In the government schools, which are referred to as public schools, Indian policy has been institute...
RUSSELL MEANS I think there is a desperate need for different kinds of education outside the comprehensive high sc...
HEATHER BENNETT![]()
Education technology is very important because we have a massive challenge in public schools.
MAJOR OWENS There are excellent public schools (in Las Vegas) and it is no secret that the public schools in wea...
MICHAEL GREEN Very few charter schools are being created in some of the best school districts in the state. If you...
JOHN ENGLER We need to be careful about the precedents we're setting on caps for charter schools. We need to loo...
BRENDA BROWN There's a backlash in traditionally high-quality suburban school districts from parents who are star...
JEANNE ALLEN![]()
I have no problems with private schools. I graduated from one and so did my mother. Private schools ...
JIM CLYBURN![]()
America needs education reform on all levels to expand quality schools, build on past successes, and...
KEVIN MCCARTHY![]()
It sometimes seems as though we were trying to combine the ideal of no schools at all with the demo...
ROBERT MAYNARD HUTCHINS![]()
Meanwhile, parents, students and teachers all report higher satisfaction with charter schools. Peopl...
MAGGIE GALLAGHER I am and have always been a strong proponent of public education. But by the virtue of its very natu...
MARK FOLEY The Learn.com software grant will help schools get into the 'digital age' and help promote the benef...
DON COOK It is one of New York City's best public elementary schools.
CLARA HEMPHILL We're not proposing any shifting of funding from public schools to private schools.
BETSY DEVOS![]()
To educate the peasantry, three things are needed: schools, schools and schools.
LEO TOLSTOY![]()
Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They're both important and scho...
ROBERT KIYOSAKI![]()
We need to build on what we know works - local oversight of schools to keep a check on performance, ...
DAVID BLUNKETT In general, the private schools tend to play at a higher level than the public schools, which is dif...
PATRICK ALVIN![]()
Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
HENRY FIELDING The way to improve schools is to give parents real options by providing parents with full school cho...
ALLAN PARKER Most of the schools that go to this are much larger schools. For a school of our size to compete wit...
CAMPBELL PRYOR They keep saying they don?t have the money because they?re giving it to the charters. They?d have to...
HARRY HILL![]()
Art shouldn't be prohibited in public schools when kids in private schools always get it.
AGNES GUND![]()
In America our public schools are intended to be religiously neutral. Our teachers and schools are n...
ADAM HAMILTON That is what happened last year when we closed some schools. Many families left the district. I woul...
DARLENE FISHER![]()
Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They're both important and ...
ROBERT KIYOSAKI Schools look to us to find the balance between aesthetics and cost. Public schools typically have ti...
DEB MICHENER![]()
In public schools, classes are bloated - it's ridiculous.
FRANK MCCOURT I thought this was a good budget. I'm very disappointed, but we'll have to see what happens from her...
SCHOOLS DENNIS MACK Overall they had been doing very well, especially as they've been around longer the students continu...
BARBARA DOWNEY It is not in the best interest of Toledo Public Schools.
DAVID MCCLELLAN We?re one of the few high schools in the state with electronic portfolios. Almost all state (post-se...
CRAIG COLBENSON![]()
We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at las...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON You're still going to have 95 percent of your children in public schools, and that's what we've got ...
BOB STATON School reform efforts have too often overlooked a powerful constituency for school change - the stud...
WENDY PURIEFOY Literacy is not, as it is considered in our schools, a PORTION of education. It IS education. It is ...
RICHARD MITCHELL Unfortunately, many of our learners wanting to return to mainstream schools in the education system ...
FRANCIS MENSAH If reflects a sad trend in American education, where suburban schools have become a place to educate...
LORIE BARZANO Who attends public schools today?
HANK SHEINKOPF Arkadelphia public schools ensure that homeless children and youth have equal access to the same fre...
VIRGINIA ANDERSON This report confirms that Al Gore has the right priorities to help improve our public schools.
DOUGLAS HATTAWAY My education in the public schools of New York City between 1932 and 1944 was an excellent preparati...
ROBERT FOGEL![]()
Legislatures not driven to desperation by the problems of public education may be able to see the th...
DAVID SOUTER![]()
My education was dismal. I went to a series of schools for mentally disturbed teachers.
WOODY ALLEN![]()
We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at las...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Some schools are looking at literacy coaches. Other schools are teaching reading strategy to teacher...
ALEXA POSNY![]()
As the son of a union activist and a lifelong Democrat, I've always thought that privatizing our...
ELI BROAD These are good schools, you can get a good education here.
ANN MARSHALL We will certainly expand enough to charter aircraft in and out of Budapest and Gyôr airports,
CHRIS HALL It's just absolutely unfair. We have many students in parochial elementary schools who elect to go t...
LAWRENCE BOWMAN When kids are looking at schools and judging what schools they might go to ... it's sort of a compet...
BARRY BROWN It was editing up to date. That's the main issue and you ought to do that to your charter once in a ...
BUD SCHMIDT Already today there are seven schools with 8,000 students within a 5-mile radius of the Kroc Center ...
DAVE HUDSON
CAPRICE YOUNG
The public education landscape is enriched by having many options - neighborhood public schools, mag... RANDI WEINGARTEN I believe public education is the new civil rights battle and I support charter schools.
ANDREW CUOMO Our goal is to say that, as additional pots of money come along, charter schools are seen as legitim...
JACKIE WILLIAMS
Charter schools are not a panacea. BOB BECKEL I expect there will be more public charter schools.
BETSY DEVOS
It's time to update traditional public schools, charter schools, home schools, online schools an... BOBBY JINDAL You look at public education system, charter schools, infrastructure, in so many ways New Orleans ha...
DREW BREES
Charter schools are public schools that operate, to a certain extent, outside the system. They have ... MAGGIE GALLAGHER
An early attempt at education choice was charter schools. These were meant to attract the best and b... BOB BECKEL If Toledo Public Schools want to increase student enrollment, they must first look at themselves. Th...
CHRISTOPHER MYERS The problem is that the two sides didn't have enough sitting-down time to work out what are the need...
ADRIAN M. FENTY In communities where there are many charter schools those communities have had very negative effects...
JODY SIEGLE D.C. charter schools lead the pack in terms of market share.
JEANNE ALLEN
Charter schools have a far higher proportion of teachers who are not certified. MAGGIE GALLAGHER It's important to recognize that charter schools are public schools, and that it is better for your ...
JEANNE ALLEN Los Angeles Unified has quickly become the nationwide leader in promoting innovative public school o...
CAPRICE YOUNG The governor has to be very firm in his commitment to charter schools.
BRIAN BACKSTROM More and more states are looking at voucher programs, or trying to organize public schools on a priv...
CHRIS LUBIENSKI By making transportation more convenient for our parents by reducing the threshold from a mile to th...
JANET WALSH The McKay program operates in almost-identical fashion to the Opportunity Scholarship program, and i...
CLINT BOLICK Education has been shortchanged in the legislative process. It's time legislators step up to their c...
LINDA BRIDGES In 'The Founders,' his new book about top charter schools, Richard Whitmire traces both the ...
CAMPBELL BROWN Its clear that as long as this demand continues, then charter schools will continue to thrive,
GARY LARSON The first attention it's getting is from the new charter. No one in the middle schools even asked fo...
JOSEPH SUINA The money for charter schools isn't provided by the state, it's provided by the local district. If t...
JODY SIEGLE We have a law that allows us to establish charter schools here in this state. We ought to get going ...
CRAIG BENSON
The 'niche' effect of charter schools guarantees a swift and vicious deepening of class and ... JONATHAN KOZOL Republicans get a lot of money from big business, but they are not tied to the union dollar. As a re...
JUAN WILLIAMS
Sex education classes in our public schools are promoting incest JIMMY SWAGGART About half my work in education is U.S. political reform around school districts and charter schools...
REED HASTINGS The discrepancy there is that alternative schools were previously exempted from the grading process....
JOE GREEN In most states, this was a matter of political compromise. Because there wasn't support across the b...
ALEX JOHNSTON We are going to be able to have rapid growth of the high-quality charter schools that are doing very...
CAPRICE YOUNG
Arizona is a national leader in school choice with both charter schools and tuition tax credits givi... JANE D. HULL Before the meeting, we had revised our contract based on talks with (Imagine Schools and the charter...
DALE FRIEDMAN This problem that you have in Houston right now is the poster child for why we in the Legislature wa...
FLORENCE SHAPIRO
The strongest results were in Florida and Texas. In just one year in a Texas charter school, an aver... MAGGIE GALLAGHER The public schools, trade schools and research schools, these are the coal mines of the 21st century...
WILLIAM SCRANTON
And then the conditions of safety - or lack of safety - for teachers in public schools, and the disp... WARREN BEATTY When we first mention charter schools, people snicker and scoff, but we are finding more and more pe...
WAYNE SISCO He has ignored the public school system, which serves 40,000 students, while concentrating on the re...
DAN SIEGEL We are going to fight this thing all the way. The district is breaking the law and it's breaking its...
GARY LARSON The next step is to recognize that public schools all across urban America are in serious crisis, an...
CLINT BOLICK I think charter schools certainly have proven that there are some wonderful things they have to offe...
CATHERINE COLLINS It's parents who most commonly start charter schools. So the community gets to decide what kind of s...
PHIL ANDREWS
In the government schools, which are referred to as public schools, Indian policy has been institute... RUSSELL MEANS I think there is a desperate need for different kinds of education outside the comprehensive high sc...
HEATHER BENNETT
Education technology is very important because we have a massive challenge in public schools. MAJOR OWENS There are excellent public schools (in Las Vegas) and it is no secret that the public schools in wea...
MICHAEL GREEN Very few charter schools are being created in some of the best school districts in the state. If you...
JOHN ENGLER We need to be careful about the precedents we're setting on caps for charter schools. We need to loo...
BRENDA BROWN There's a backlash in traditionally high-quality suburban school districts from parents who are star...
JEANNE ALLEN
I have no problems with private schools. I graduated from one and so did my mother. Private schools ... JIM CLYBURN
America needs education reform on all levels to expand quality schools, build on past successes, and... KEVIN MCCARTHY
It sometimes seems as though we were trying to combine the ideal of no schools at all with the demo... ROBERT MAYNARD HUTCHINS
Meanwhile, parents, students and teachers all report higher satisfaction with charter schools. Peopl... MAGGIE GALLAGHER I am and have always been a strong proponent of public education. But by the virtue of its very natu...
MARK FOLEY The Learn.com software grant will help schools get into the 'digital age' and help promote the benef...
DON COOK It is one of New York City's best public elementary schools.
CLARA HEMPHILL We're not proposing any shifting of funding from public schools to private schools.
BETSY DEVOS
To educate the peasantry, three things are needed: schools, schools and schools. LEO TOLSTOY
Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They're both important and scho... ROBERT KIYOSAKI
We need to build on what we know works - local oversight of schools to keep a check on performance, ... DAVID BLUNKETT In general, the private schools tend to play at a higher level than the public schools, which is dif...
PATRICK ALVIN
Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality. HENRY FIELDING The way to improve schools is to give parents real options by providing parents with full school cho...
ALLAN PARKER Most of the schools that go to this are much larger schools. For a school of our size to compete wit...
CAMPBELL PRYOR They keep saying they don?t have the money because they?re giving it to the charters. They?d have to...
HARRY HILL
Art shouldn't be prohibited in public schools when kids in private schools always get it. AGNES GUND
In America our public schools are intended to be religiously neutral. Our teachers and schools are n... ADAM HAMILTON That is what happened last year when we closed some schools. Many families left the district. I woul...
DARLENE FISHER
Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They're both important and ... ROBERT KIYOSAKI Schools look to us to find the balance between aesthetics and cost. Public schools typically have ti...
DEB MICHENER
In public schools, classes are bloated - it's ridiculous. FRANK MCCOURT I thought this was a good budget. I'm very disappointed, but we'll have to see what happens from her...
SCHOOLS DENNIS MACK Overall they had been doing very well, especially as they've been around longer the students continu...
BARBARA DOWNEY It is not in the best interest of Toledo Public Schools.
DAVID MCCLELLAN We?re one of the few high schools in the state with electronic portfolios. Almost all state (post-se...
CRAIG COLBENSON
We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at las... RALPH WALDO EMERSON You're still going to have 95 percent of your children in public schools, and that's what we've got ...
BOB STATON School reform efforts have too often overlooked a powerful constituency for school change - the stud...
WENDY PURIEFOY Literacy is not, as it is considered in our schools, a PORTION of education. It IS education. It is ...
RICHARD MITCHELL Unfortunately, many of our learners wanting to return to mainstream schools in the education system ...
FRANCIS MENSAH If reflects a sad trend in American education, where suburban schools have become a place to educate...
LORIE BARZANO Who attends public schools today?
HANK SHEINKOPF Arkadelphia public schools ensure that homeless children and youth have equal access to the same fre...
VIRGINIA ANDERSON This report confirms that Al Gore has the right priorities to help improve our public schools.
DOUGLAS HATTAWAY My education in the public schools of New York City between 1932 and 1944 was an excellent preparati...
ROBERT FOGEL
Legislatures not driven to desperation by the problems of public education may be able to see the th... DAVID SOUTER
My education was dismal. I went to a series of schools for mentally disturbed teachers. WOODY ALLEN
We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at las... RALPH WALDO EMERSON Some schools are looking at literacy coaches. Other schools are teaching reading strategy to teacher...
ALEXA POSNY
As the son of a union activist and a lifelong Democrat, I've always thought that privatizing our... ELI BROAD These are good schools, you can get a good education here.
ANN MARSHALL We will certainly expand enough to charter aircraft in and out of Budapest and Gyôr airports,
CHRIS HALL It's just absolutely unfair. We have many students in parochial elementary schools who elect to go t...
LAWRENCE BOWMAN When kids are looking at schools and judging what schools they might go to ... it's sort of a compet...
BARRY BROWN It was editing up to date. That's the main issue and you ought to do that to your charter once in a ...
BUD SCHMIDT Already today there are seven schools with 8,000 students within a 5-mile radius of the Kroc Center ...
DAVE HUDSON
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