Wayne LaPierre Quotes

Even on education, his one accomplishment, the Leave No Child Behind Act, and he has left it unfunded.

I believe the government should ensure all children are provided with a good education.

My concern for education in New Mexico has always been there. I'm one of those kids that struggled through school, and I feel like I fell through the cracks.

Britain, today, educates 4.8 million primary school children in Britain. And we educate five million primary school children around the developing world, at a cost of 2.5 per cent of what we spend on British children.

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.

An act to provide for the education of the poor, gratis

The goal of the Head Start program is to give at-risk children all across our Nation a fair chance at succeeding in the educational system.

I believe public education is the new civil rights battle and I support charter schools.

And I think that we in America need to understand that many schools need improvement, and particularly with respect to how they're serving minority children.

Ending educational inequality is going to require systemic change and a long-term, sustained effort. There are no shortcuts and no silver bullets.

If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.

Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

Wisconsin's kids shouldn't be allowed to fail just because Washington is failing them.

Head Start is especially important to Latino children. Latino children make up more than one-third, 34 percent, of all those eligible for the program.

We're failing our children with education, we're failing our environment.

May this plain statement of facts prevail on the friends of the rising generation to interpose for their welfare; that the education of children may no longer be to parent and master a lottery, in which the prizes bear no proportion to the enormous number of blanks.

The immediate future is going to be tragic for all of us unless we find a way of making the vast educational resources of this country serve the true purpose of education, truth and justice.

The logic is that when you provide schools or any social service to people, they have no choice. They have to take what you give them, because they don't have the money to pay for schools themselves; that's why you provide schools in the first place.

What I'd like to say is that I think the lives of every one of these little kids who are trapped in these unsafe and failing schools are too important, and I'm willing to take the abuse in order to help them.

Too many people believe that the education deficit is someone else's problem.

America's public schools have served their purpose. Free and compulsory education was good for a somewhat unpromising young nation.

The ALAS Foundation was born as a consequence and a continuation of what we are doing with Pies Descalzos. I started the Pies Descalzos foundation in Colombia when I was 18, and since then, I have been very involved in the crusade for education.

That's why I created the New America School - to fill the cracks in our public education system.

I don't know how many speeches I have given saying, 'No child worse off.'

When we're able to identify disparities in education, we can better determine whether federal grant programs are effectively reaching our students, allowing us to improve how to distribute and implement these funds across communities.