Gary Herbert Quotes

I believe in local control of education.

During my time as a state legislator, I've pushed for significant investment in public school districts. In Congress, I would look forward to increasing federal public investment in education through initiatives like Race to the Top.

At the federal level, we must help, not hinder, local school boards, parents, teachers and administrators as they make decisions about educating our children.

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

I look forward to the opportunity to continue to push for the welfare of our students and the dignity of our educators' work in my role as governor.

When it comes to education, no solution, not even ones we like, should be dictated or run from Washington, D.C.

The Department of Education should be disbanded and the resources either returned to the taxpayers or put into the schools.

In education, they say either property taxes have to go up, or we'll have poor education - that's a false choice.

We need to increase education budgets.

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

As a Member of Congress, I've continued my family's tradition of focusing on education.

Like health care, education is something worth spending on and worth investing in, but we're spending more and getting less.

If the government is going to mandate levels and punish schools for failing, they should send that money to the school system.

Congress has an opportunity to take advantage of the opening created by Justice Kennedy later this year when it reauthorizes the federal No Child Left Behind Act.

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

Real Texans want their kids to have the best education possible, not the one politicians looking to brag about budget cuts have left us with.

If we're going to see sustainable results from all the other investments we're making in education, we need to build leadership capacity in each and every country.

But then it hasn't really been a focus of our government to make us an educated people.

The people of Missouri said they expect their elected leaders to support public schools because they know that education is the best economic development tool there is.

If it is the duty of the State to educate, it is the duty of the State also to bear the burden of education, namely, the taxation out of which education is provided.

You've got to have a good public education system so small-business owners, when they locate to an area, are confident their kids are getting the best education possible. I feel strongly about local control in school districts.

They [educators] don't want to hear my views on education. They just want the [federal] money.

I think that there should be national standards in reading and math and maybe history and civics….We have a culture of non-compliance with Federal requirements in education.

The largest investment that most communities have is their school buildings.

The [teachers’] unions and the [school] districts have very different stakes in local control. The districts want the money and the programs that higher level governments can provide, but they also want autonomy in determining how resources are allocated. The unions are much less wedded to local autonomy. Indeed, much of their lobbying at the state level is to limit the autonomy of the districts.