Mitt Romney Quotes

I believe there ought to be school choice, so that parents can choose within the public school system.

Nor, in our own country, must we fail to take notice of the establishment of School Boards.

In my mind, there is no reason public school reform should be a partisan issue.

Schools should be open. If it's a public education, and the school in your district is poor-performing, you should be able to put your student or kid wherever you want.

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.

An early attempt at education choice was charter schools. These were meant to attract the best and brightest students and provide them a level of education they often could not find in their local school districts. The problem is that, of the thousands of charter schools, many are outright failures.

The role of the federal government, if any, is to create more school choice.

As the son of a union activist and a lifelong Democrat, I've always thought that privatizing our public schools is not the answer. We must strengthen public schools.

And there should not be a limit on the creation of new public schools. We ought to expand choices for parents.

I'm a very big public school advocate.

Arizona is a national leader in school choice with both charter schools and tuition tax credits giving parents and their children more school choices than ever before.

There has been a growing consensus across the country - from statehouses to the White House and the halls of Congress - that we need to take dramatic steps to improve our secondary schools.

When you introduce competition into the public school system, most studies show that schools start to do better when they are competing for students.

The number one issue facing cities isn’t crimes or jobs anymore, it’s public education.

The problems of public schools will not be solved by cutting off the source of their funding, which is what vouchers are.

When people lose faith in a system as they have in the public school system, they no longer want to support it.

One of my main legislative efforts in education is to help expand and replicate successful charter schools. Charter schools are public schools with site-based governance.

Public schools in the late '80s and early '90s were a total mess... we felt that if I was going to have a good educational option in my life, I would have to go to a public school district that actually served its children.

When I grew up in Cincinnati in 1974, the Board of Education set up the performing school, similar to the New York performing arts school, and it was in walking distance from my school.

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

Get rid of Betsy DeVos.

The bigger goal of giving all parents more choices is one that will have to be discussed and undoubtedly roundly debated, but we are going to have to continue to build the case. The momentum is there on the state level in many states. That's where the energy needs to be harnessed in a new way.

We need better public education and more realistic education.

Education has not traditionally been a large concern in presidential elections, presumably because the president does not run schools.

As a former public high school teacher, I will support whatever is in the best interest of Texas education only after careful evaluation of the Permanent School Fund.