Michael Bennet Quotes

In Barack Obama, we have a great education president who is rebuilding America. His Race to the Top program is doing more to 'spur us' to improve our public schools than anything we've ever done as a nation.

Well, we have to provide the world's best schools. We certainly don't have them, but that's our objective.

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.

No Child Left Behind's fourth-grade gains aren't learning gains, they're testing gains. That's why they don't last. The law is a distraction from things that really count.

The No Child Left Behind Program was an incentive to the schools to get their kids up to snuff on math and science and reading.

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.

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.

I was very happy being education minister and deputy to John Cain.

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.

The Department of Education engages in fanciful rhetoric.

I would abolish the federal Department of Education and very quickly. People don't realize that the federal Department of Education gives each state 11 cents out of every school dollar that every state spends. But it comes with 15 cents worth of strings attached.

Common Core is a big win for education.

Local school districts should be free to adapt their academic programs in ways appropriate for their community, but we cannot allow mindless budget shortfalls to force wrongheaded changes to our children's education.

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.

It is necessary and critical for states to have flexibility to determine how to identify and improve schools.

Every education law should be based around the question, 'Is this good for children?' And it's not.

The No Child Left Behind Act will be one of President Bush's enduring legacies. And it was engineered and inaugurated with a truly bipartisan coalition in Congress. Accountability, standards, and truly measuring student performance just makes sense. The only real debate about the law was and is whether or not it was adequately funded.

My mother, who was professional schoolteacher, was particularly concerned about our formal education and even went so far as to start a private school together with some other parents so that our intellectual needs would be met.

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

We spend more than a million dollars a year on our colleges and university, and it is money well spent; but we must have education that fits not the few but the many for the business of life.

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.

Also, if we take back our schools and concentrate on improving them so our children get a better education, they will be better trained to compete for a job locally.

I'll continue to fight for school choice and home schooling. Do I believe in accountability? You bet I do.

Frankly, I'm not sure how far I would get if I attended public school today. It's not just that public schools aren't producing the results we want - it's that we're not giving them what they need to help students achieve at high levels. K-12 education in the United States is deeply antiquated.