Pete Laney Quotes

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

Even on education, his one accomplishment, the Leave No Child Behind Act, and he has left it unfunded.

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

For six and a half years, I had responsibility for leading the Labour party policy on education and delivering on our promise of improved opportunities for all our children.

Over-reliance on strictly economic justifications has already begun to hurt the quality and range of education at every level of American life.

If we get public education right, everything else will follow. But if we get it wrong, not much else will matter.

America's public schools have served their purpose. Free and compulsory education was good for a somewhat unpromising young nation.

We cannot, as a country, improve economically, socially, and culturally without quality education.

I had a moment where I left journalism, and I started getting interested in this issue and writing about it, where I felt there was a right side and a wrong side around a lot of these issues relating to education.

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

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.

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of leaders from education and business, communities and academia to say that it is time to strike the shackles of an outdated school calendar from our disadvantaged schools.

May this plain statement of facts prevail on the friends of the rising generation to interpose for their welfare; that the education of children may no longer be to parent and master a lottery, in which the prizes bear no proportion to the enormous number of blanks.

President-elect Bush spoke in a forceful and candid manner that it is his passion that all children should have access to a first class education.

Education is among the most important problems we face because it's the ultimate 'gateway' problem. That is, it drives virtually every global problem that we face as a species. But there's a flip-side: if we can fix education, then we'll dramatically improve the other problems, too.

For every challenge we face - unemployment, poverty, crime, income growth, income inequality, productivity, competitiveness - a great education is a major component of the solution.

President Obama is highly concerned with education. He's a champion on early-childhood development strategies. So I like the work he's doing, and I support it, and I realise that he's one of very few political leaders around the world that actually has early-childhood development strategise at the top of his agenda.

When we set up our kids for failure, we set up our workforce for failure, and we set up our economy for failure. I can't emphasize enough the importance, the absolute importance, of education in achieving long-term economic growth.

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

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

Ladies and gentlemen: There can be no greater investment in Alabama's future than an investment in education.

This is not a skill problem, this is a will problem. Does America have the will to make education a priority? We know the things that work. Why don't we scale up those things that do work.

We have done a poor job educating people about education. Only when we have clarified that can we talk about how best to achieve it.

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

To pine for the days before public education became a practical reality is to pine for an America held back by mass ignorance and mass illiteracy.