Kristen Soltis Anderson Quotes

The problems of public schools will not be solved by cutting off the source of their funding, which is what vouchers are.

I'm totally opposed to vouchers. I will fight them tooth and nail.

I have no problems with private schools. I graduated from one and so did my mother. Private schools are useful and we often use public funds to pay for their infrastructures and other common needs.

Get rid of Betsy DeVos.

I believe public education is the new civil rights battle and I support charter schools.

It's time to update traditional public schools, charter schools, home schools, online schools and parochial schools. Let the dollars follow the child instead of forcing the child to follow the dollars, so that every child has the opportunity to attain an education.

We really shouldn't be running education like a supermarket where you compare prices.

Right-wingers don't want public education to succeed.

We all have a stake in ensuring that all students have the schools they deserve and that communities are leading this effort, not being left behind. To do that, we must challenge unchecked charter expansion and the forces driving it.

The Department of Education should be disbanded and the resources either returned to the taxpayers or put into the schools.

The White House, in advancing the agenda for a [school] "choice" plan, rests its faith on market mechanisms. What reason have the black and very poor to lend their credence to a market system that has proved so obdurate and so resistant to their pleas at every turn?

To me, it looks like an opportunity for school choice. I'd also like to see a pilot program to allow true school choice ? vouchers.

In education, they say either property taxes have to go up, or we'll have poor education - that's a false choice.

Even on education, his one accomplishment, the Leave No Child Behind Act, and he has left it unfunded.

President Bush and I had asked Congress to appropriate a half-billion dollars to school vouchers. We didn't get it, and we were disappointed. But we did not go out and form a corporation to pay for it. That would have been a problem.

Congress has an opportunity to take advantage of the opening created by Justice Kennedy later this year when it reauthorizes the federal No Child Left Behind Act.

Many of those who argue for vouchers say that they simply want to use competition to improve public education. I don't think it works that way, and I've been watching this for a longtime.

I'll continue to fight for school choice and home schooling. Do I believe in accountability? You bet I do.

And before our current legislature adjourns, we intend to become the first state of full and true choice by saying to every low and middle-income Hoosier family, if you think a non-government school is the right one for your child, you're as entitled to that option as any wealthy family; here's a voucher, go sign up.

There is a growing acceptance and interest in publicly funded school choice as a catalyst for education reform in general and a way to empower parents to be education reformers.

Arizona is a national leader in school choice with both charter schools and tuition tax credits giving parents and their children more school choices than ever before.

Legislatures not driven to desperation by the problems of public education may be able to see the threat in vouchers negotiable in sectarian schools.

But then it hasn't really been a focus of our government to make us an educated people.

If it is the duty of the State to educate, it is the duty of the State also to bear the burden of education, namely, the taxation out of which education is provided.

I just have a position that any child that's in a failing school should be able to get out, or be in a position to have that school fixed.