George W. Bush Quotes

As Governor of Texas, I have set high standards for our public schools, and I have met those standards.

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.

Earlier today, Arnold Schwarzenegger criticized the California school system, calling it disastrous. Arnold says California's schools are so bad that its graduates are willing to vote for me.

I do look upon the secretary of education's primary responsibility as the quality of education that - and improving the education that every child in American public schools receives.

If the goal of the No Child Left Behind Act is to ensure that all children meet state standards, then allowing large numbers of the most disadvantaged children to fall between the cracks is unacceptable.

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.

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

With the enactment of the bipartisan No Child Left Behind Act, we have taken an important step toward achieving federal education policies that will allow students to learn and achieve at the highest possible level.

Federal oversight has focused primarily on fiscal accountability and not on educational accountability.

There's no silver bullet when it comes to helping all children achieve. Great public schools are our best shot.

Charter schools in particular have proven a lifeline for millions of children stuck in chronically failing schools.

American education will be determined by the quality of American public education, and that's public schools that are available.

We need to fund No Child Left Behind. We need to start at the beginning and we are not doing the job here in the United States of America.

In DC, policymakers think that if we can only have high enough standards, tough enough tests, and hold people accountable, we can close the achievement gap. And it hasn't happened. Yet the new law, the Every Student Succeeds Act, is based on the same test-based and market-driven framework and ideology, except it lets the states do it.

Texas is a national leader in education reform and student achievement. Through our college- and career-ready standards and assessments, strong school accountability, and a focus on educator development, we have created an education system that prepares our students for success after graduation.

You could argue that [the decline of public schools] is one of the major disasters in our lifetimes. We took one of the greatest successes in the history of the earth and turned it into one of the greatest disasters in the history of the earth.

Testing is not a substitute for curriculum and instruction. Good education cannot be achieved by a strategy of testing children, shaming educators, and closing schools.

We should have high expectations of our children, but politicians should not tell teachers how to meet them.

Hillary Clinton wants to leave behind No Child Left Behind.

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.

Scholarships that allow students to get a good education are important, but first we want to measure the progress that the schools are teaching our students, we want to hold them accountable for the progress, we want to hold the schools accountable for teaching the young people in America.

When I talk to teachers, parents, superintendents, my colleagues, everyone wants to fix No Child Left behind. There is great dissatisfaction with No Child Left Behind.

Albuquerque is my home. I want my kids and all of our children to be able to go to any public or charter school and receive an excellent education.

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.

I'm clear that we do need to improve what's happening in our schools.