I have long been an advocate of school choice, but I also believe the problem lies with school administrators and union leaders who refuse to believe there is such a thing as a bad school.
I believe there ought to be school choice, so that parents can choose within the public school system.
We need to end the government monopoly in education by transferring power from bureaucracies and unions to families. The era of defining public education as allegiance to centralized school districts must end.
The role of the federal government, if any, is to create more school choice.
I don't want the values of others being imposed on my children in my school, and I don't think that should be happening in a public school or a private school.
The difference between the denominational system and the public school system is all the difference between bolstering them up on the one hand and letting them alone of the other.
Keep the Federal skunk out of our schools.
I've nothing against schools! I'm against compulsory schooling.
The bottom line is we believe that parents are the best equipped to make choices for their children's schooling and education decisions.
Through the post-war era, including the teachers’ union movement, the authority of the principal has in fact been reduced to a shell.
Our schools should get five years to get back to where they were in 1963. If they're still bad maybe we should declare educational bankruptcy, give the people their money and let them educate themselves and start their own schools.
It's time to return our education policy back to local communities.
We know that the two most important things in a child's education are a good teacher and an involved parent. You don't foster those things with a bloated federal bureaucracy - you encourage them when you support choice and accountability.
Yes, I believe in school choice. Parents know far better than government bureaucrats what their children need from an education standpoint, and they should be permitted to make that choice.
The Federal Government does not have a huge role in education and most parents like it that way.
I challenge the leaders of public education to stop issuing mandates from the state office and to focus on empowering schools and delivering resources to the school level.
The success of our economy shouldn't determine the success of our schools.
What we're doing now is we're saying that individual schools can spend the money on their own priorities, so that head teachers can decide what's truly important, because the big shift in approach on education that we're taking - which is different from what happened before - is that we trust teachers and we trust heads.
I think it's a right that every American parent should have - choice and competition in education, and choice in schools are most important to me.
In 'The Founders,' his new book about top charter schools, Richard Whitmire traces both the 'revolution' these schools brought about in many American cities as well as a parallel phenomenon, 'the charter pushback campaigns.'
I do not want church groups controlling the schools of our country. They must remain free.
We stand for getting government out of the way, letting people make good decisions for themselves, in education, returning power to school boards and to teachers and to parents so they can educate the children.
And there should not be a limit on the creation of new public schools. We ought to expand choices for parents.
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.
But the best thing Washington can do for education is realize that our role is limited. Washington must keep its promises, but let those who know our childrens' names- parents, teachers and school board members- make education decisions.
