Michelle Malkin Quotes

And I think that we in America need to understand that many schools need improvement, and particularly with respect to how they're serving minority children.

We can revolutionize the attitude of inner city brown and black kids to learning. We need a civil rights movement within the African-American community.

I didn't design schools for poor kids. I'm designing schools to be world-class.

We need to focus on helping EVERY child to get a world-class education in EVERY school in this country.

A core part of Teach For America's mission has always been affecting positive change in the traditional public school system.

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

I believe we need a national amendment which will guarantee every child in America the promise of not just an equal education but a high-quality equal education.

School choice is the civil rights issue of the 21st century.

If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.

Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

The Time to Succeed Coalition brings together an unprecedented group of leaders from education and business, communities and academia to say that it is time to strike the shackles of an outdated school calendar from our disadvantaged schools.

To me, the burden of proof isn't on people looking for ways to improve our schools; it's on people who want to keep things the same. Our current system isn't working, and too many kids are being left behind.

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.

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's no silver bullet when it comes to helping all children achieve. Great public schools are our best shot.

Access to a quality education in our country is a civil right for all Americans young and old. But to ensure it for scores of our fellow Americans, we must rethink education.

As more and more minority groups fill our nation's classrooms, what can we do to even the separate-but-forever-unequal playing field? Now that's a question many very smart people have spent decades trying to answer.

I'm very, very focused on not only creating world class schools at scale, but changing the public policy in this country that every day prevents children from getting access to the American dream.

The greatest obstacle to those who hope to reform American education is complacency.

Latinos care about education, yes, so we need reform, not just money.

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.

Teach For America provides one of the most critical pipelines for bringing new talent into public education.

From kindergarten to graduation, I went to public schools, and I know that they are a key to being sure that every child has a chance to succeed and to rise in the world.

I believe the government should ensure all children are provided with a good education.

Teach For America is working hard to be one significant source of the leadership we need.