Education Budget Quotes

Already this war on gangs in California is taking money from universities to build prisons, and the universities have some clout.

States should not balance their budgets on the backs of students.

The last thing that should happen is funding cut for education; it should be increased. We need to put more money towards education, and anything else is abusive.

I thought we were out of money!? You can't simultaneously fire teachers AND tomahawk missiles.

I'm very committed to stable and adequate funding for education.

School systems now routinely have more administrators than classroom teachers. They have armies of counselors and therapists and nutritionists and 'multi-cultural learning facilitators.'

Schools used to fund-raise for luxuries, like a trip to the water slides. Now, we fund-raise for things we have to have.

I never hear anything about education. Education - I guess it's just not sexy enough. And everybody claims to love their children and our children are the most important thing, but if that's the case, how come we never hear more about education as an election issue?

It seems everyone knows a college degree is important, but few have a plan to keep it affordable.

Education policy ... has not been driven by sound educational considerations. It has been driven by the budget process.

At the moment, in Britain we're facing such enormous cutbacks in education programs and music programs and art programs that you feel you are knocking your head against a brick wall.

I think we spend too much on K-12 education a.k.a. teachers' salaries. It's the only industry where you never see any productivity increases.

Every dollar spent on education should go toward helping our teachers teach and our students learn.

How well we spend education dollars is just as important as how much we spend.

Too many schools across the country have cut back heavily on their music curricula.

The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.

The weekly cartoons, as were my plays, came from a sense of criticism, criticism of the times, critical of the culture, of our manners and attitudes towards each other. The children's books come from the reverse. They're more supportive, since we're living in a time where we talk more about kids and do less, we talk about balancing the budget and we do it by cutting education.

If we freed up all the money in the certification process, think about how much more money we'd have to put into teacher salaries.

Programs that bring the arts to young kids are always the first to be cut. It's mind-boggling to me.

When it comes to the budget, we know that we shouldn't be cutting more on core investments, like education, that are going to help us grow in the future. And we've already seen the deficit cut in half. It's going down faster than any time in the last 60 years. So why would we make more cuts in education, more cuts in basic research? Nobody thinks that's a good idea.

Universities have to tame their budgets, especially for student amenities that have nothing to do with education.

Cutting our education budget, that's not a smart choice. That will not help America compete with China.

The promise of education reform can never be fulfilled without adequate funding, and by shortchanging our schools, President Bush is breaking his promise to our children.

As a matter of record, New York City spends a higher portion of its budget on instruction and associated costs within the schools themselves than any of the other 100 largest districts in the nation.