Cary Kennedy Quotes

If there's one thing that 'No Child Left Behind' has proven, it's that more academics don't make for smarter children - or even higher test scores. And yet we somehow refuse to accept this reality.

We need to increase education budgets.

I am very proud of the quality of public education in Nebraska, but I believe we have an obligation to continually assess whether our system is meeting 21st Century education needs.

We really shouldn't be running education like a supermarket where you compare prices.

I've visited schools all across our state, and the message is clear. Our kids have needs today, and our educators need more resources to do their jobs.

A great economy requires great public schools.

We used to have superb public schools. I guess we don't anymore, but, boy, the public schools were really something and I am a product of those in Indianapolis.

I say, too, with education, America needs to be putting a lot more focus on that and our schools have got to be really ramped up in terms of the funding that they are deserving. Teachers needed to be paid more.

I think people don't talk enough about education and what we need to do in our public education system.

Ask me my three main priorities for government, and I tell you: education, education and education.

We know that there will never be a great Newark unless there is a great public school system for our city.

We have to fix the education system.

We - our children need a quality public education.

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.

I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.

I don't think of myself as a policy expert. I think education is the most important thing.

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

We at the Department of Education are going to provide technical assistance; I've committed $14 million to show states how they might meet this more sophisticated approach.

We have to build a better education in this country. We need to step it up.

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.

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.

You can’t reform education without spending some money.