Inner City Education Quotes

Inner city education must change. Our responsibility is not merely to provide access to knowledge; we must produce educated people.

I've had more students die than I ever thought possible. My husband urges me to quit Fairfield and teach at some school without gang members who live their lives only to die or end up as drug dealers.

I'm from the inner city of Buffalo.

I don't know if you've been in any inner-city schools, but it's pretty demoralizing. The kids come to class bright-eyed, enthusiastic - entering first grade really looking forward to school. By the fourth grade they're just completely turned off, and by the time they enter high school, they see little relationship between school and employment. It's bad enough you have incompetent teachers and schools that are poorly run, understaffed, and lack material resources. It's even worse when the kids themselves don't feel they have any stake in school.

I grew up in the inner city. It wasn't a joke.

Yeah I grew up on the Westside of Detroit.

I'm an inner city man, born and bred.

We've made a huge effort globally and in the US, in getting kids jobs. This is one piece. The South Bronx and inner-city schools need it more than most. It's our hometown; JPMorgan Chase banks a lot of people here. If you see the school, it works. Kids all getting jobs, they're smiling, they're proud of themselves. That's what we need to do in inner-city schools.

I'd like to do something for inner-city schools and education for young people because it's constantly being cut.

I went to Locke High School in Watts towards the end of the super gangbanging era.

No Child Left Behind widens the gap between the races more than any piece of educational legislation I've seen in 40 years. It denies inner-city kids the critical-thinking skills to interrogate reality.

What I do know is that liberal Democrat policies in our big cities are not helping anybody, especially our big cities.

Hillary Clinton's been talking about the inner cities for 25 years. Nothing's going to ever happen.

I grew up playing basketball in the inner city of Seattle, and by the time I was a senior, I earned a full scholarship to the University of Denver.