Bob Beauprez Quotes

I haven't met one parent or one teacher in Missouri who thinks we should balance the budget by taking money from kids' classrooms.

We can't afford not to fully fund education.

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

I want to see us add more dollars to the classroom.

Teachers should not need to have to buy books for the kids, or pencils and pens. That's absurd.

We need to increase education budgets.

The promise of education reform can never be fulfilled without adequate funding, and by shortchanging our schools, President Bush is breaking his promise to our children.

Too many vital education dollars that should be spent in the classroom are bouncing around in the federal bureaucracy.

Part of Washington keeping its promises is a focus on directing more dollars into our local classrooms.

Education should be one of our top funding priorities; talking about it does not help the teachers and students who desperately need promises fulfilled.

The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.

I am going to use every rostrum and every forum and every searchlight that I can to tell the people of the country and their elected representatives that we can no longer afford overcrowded classrooms and half-day sessions. We just must not, we just cannot afford the great waste that comes from the neglect of a single child.

It is possible to have a public education system that works.

I'm very committed to stable and adequate funding for education.

How well we spend education dollars is just as important as how much we spend.

Whenever there are changes to school budgets, we know teachers feel it first.

We - our children need a quality public education.

The amount of money we spend on education is important, but not nearly as important as how the money is spent.

The opponents of my budget propose taking $200 million out of our classrooms and instead spending it on a larger school employee pay raise. Our focus should be on making sure our children come first.

I don't think the schools are getting as much money as they should.

The top priority is leaving no child behind. We want accountability in the system, and we want schools to recognize they have a responsibility to teach students.

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.

The new rule of thumb is that 80% of a president's time must be spent in raising funds for their schools.

A strong accountability system needs to broaden, not narrow, the curriculum. That cannot happen if you only have accountability without adequate school funding. Until Tallahassee understands the need to raise the bar as well as the financial investment, Florida will continue to celebrate mediocrity at the expense of true achievement.

You can’t reform education without spending some money.