Maggie Gallagher Quotes

We are spending a lot of money on our schools. We’ve got to make ourselves accountable for the results.

I went to public schools, which is to say publicly financed.

I'm not one of those who thinks the only way to fix what's wrong with American education is to throw more money at it. We also need to do it much better.

I'm a very big public school advocate.

When I talk to teachers, parents, superintendents, my colleagues, everyone wants to fix No Child Left behind. There is great dissatisfaction with No Child Left Behind.

As a society, we can and should invest more money in education.

Meanwhile, parents, students and teachers all report higher satisfaction with charter schools. People like them. They cost less money. They raise the academic achievement of poor kids. Go ahead, get a little enthused.

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.

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

It's hard to improve public education - that's clear.

The public education landscape is enriched by having many options - neighborhood public schools, magnet schools, community schools, schools that focus on career and technical education, and even charter schools.

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

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

I'm a product of public schools. They are resource-challenged, and when you take those dollars away from public schools and send them to private schools, you're further starving the system.

All schools that receive public funding should be accountable, yes.

Charter schools in particular have proven a lifeline for millions of children stuck in chronically failing schools.

Charter schools are not a panacea.

We should empower teachers to do their job by cutting wasteful spending and crippling bureaucracy, not classroom resources our educators and students need.

Public education is so important - resisting privatization and charterization, high-stakes testing, and defunding. It's important for New York, but it's also important for the country.

90 percent of American schoolchildren are in public schools. And the emphasis on private schools and charter schools and parochial schools is not unimportant.

Charter schools are public schools. They're paid for publicly and they're part of the public system. They just have a more independent structure.

When you say you don't think we should have public schools, they can't believe you mean that. You must mean that they should be smaller. But you can't really mean no public schools.

Art shouldn't be prohibited in public schools when kids in private schools always get it.

Millennials are not deeply familiar with school choice, and have some reservations, especially about the types of institutions that a student might choose to attend with taxpayer dollars.

It's not who you're going to sit beside at school that matters now: it's what resources will your school have.