School Quality Quotes

The vast majority of students in this country will continue to attend public schools.

I made a different decision to send my children to the local state school.

Students coming from father-present families score higher in math and science even when they come from weaker schools.

I'm clear that we do need to improve what's happening in our schools.

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.

A young man passes from our public schools to the universities, ignorant almost of the elements of every branch of useful knowledge.

I realized some time ago that, while there are really, really high quality schools in urban India - my daughter attends one - there are very few high quality schools in rural India. And that is mostly because of the perception that there are not enough people to pay a reasonable fee in rural India.

It is often easier for our children to obtain a gun than it is to find a good school.

If you don't live in an area with good public schools, you can move to a different place if you have the financial means to do so.

If you are born poor, whether white or black, you are going to be in a bad neighborhood and go to a bad school. If you are making three million dollars a year, a couple hundred thousand in taxes ain't gonna kill you.

Everyone goes to rotten schools when they're kids, don't they?

Schools should be open. If it's a public education, and the school in your district is poor-performing, you should be able to put your student or kid wherever you want.

Cities that tend of have better schools for middle-income families, they tend to have much better prospects for kids moving up in the income distribution.

I have seen no primary schools worthy to be compared, even now, with those of Holland.

I went to a fairly normal, middle-of-the-road public school in a suburb of New Orleans, but it gave me huge opportunities.

Equal access to public education has been achieved. But what is the good of access to a failing school?

If my child were in a school where he was not learning, I would not wait for a gathering of social scientists to tell me whether it was okay for me to send him to another school.

I grew up in the public schools, my mom taught in them, and then my daughter is in them.

Great Schools. Great Texas

American education will be determined by the quality of American public education, and that's public schools that are available.

That should be the goal, is that every kid in every neighborhood, despite whatever challenges they may face, are getting a great education in our public schools.

Public schools in the late '80s and early '90s were a total mess... we felt that if I was going to have a good educational option in my life, I would have to go to a public school district that actually served its children.

There were only two other Chinese families in this town of 25,000, but to our parents, the determining factor was the quality of the public school system.

The best schools in Arizona are charter schools. The worst schools in Arizona are charter schools.