Campbell Brown Quotes

It comes down to what your priorities are, and if public education is about kids, then every decision we make should be focused on the question of 'Is this good for a child?' And that should be the driving focus and the priority when we decide what our policies should be and what our laws should be.

I want to work with the teachers' union. But as I said out there, we have to put the kids first and we are letting down a generation of California children. It's not acceptable.

Competitive programs such as Race to the Top provide incentives for communities to develop new solutions for old problems. Because of Race to the Top, states have raised their standards and committed to fixing schools that have persistently failed students.

I have a proven record of working for our kids as state superintendent, and as a governor I'll deliver real results for Wisconsin families.

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.

Through the Committee on Education and the Workforce, we need to ensure we are educating a future generation to achieve a workforce for the 21st century. I believe the best education solutions come from those closest to the students: state and local entities.

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.

Every child should have the opportunity to receive a quality education.

President Obama's first term in office has been better for intentions than for actual changes in planning and policy. I do believe, and he has several things to this effect, that he would like to provide universal preschool or at least far more preschool for our children.

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.

For six and a half years, I had responsibility for leading the Labour party policy on education and delivering on our promise of improved opportunities for all our children.

President-elect Bush spoke in a forceful and candid manner that it is his passion that all children should have access to a first class education.

The Department of Education engages in fanciful rhetoric.

I’m running for Governor so that all our children can go to kindergarten.

I want to make sure every child has the opportunity for quality 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.

I'll continue to fight for our schools.

Union Budget 2012 has supported industry's long time demand to improve the provision and standards of education in the country.

I'm a mom, and my view of public education begins and ends with the fundamental question: Is this good for children?

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.

I believe we need a national amendment which will guarantee every child in America the promise of not just an equal education but a high-quality equal education.

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

Education is not Democrat versus Republican. It's about doing the right things for the right reason for our kids.