Eli Broad Quotes

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.

We must revamp K-12 education law to ensure Washington does not stand in the way of meaningful reforms.

In the education debate, people are so passionate about their ideas that we often end up expending more energy shouting at each other than we do pushing for the fundamentals to success in all schools.

The key for all cities is whether you turn the public schools around.

For many years we have spent a great deal of effort and money on school reform. Yet where are we today?

Equal access to public education has been achieved. But what is the good of access to a failing school?

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

A core part of Teach For America's mission has always been affecting positive change in the traditional public school system.

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

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.

Instead of unfairly demonizing teachers, we should be working with them to find solutions to the problems in our schools and make sure every child gets an outstanding public education.

I'm excited about seeing a bipartisan plan to reform education in the United States. The only other option is to protect the status quo and I really don't think anybody wants to do that.

The Time to Succeed Coalition brings together an unprecedented group of leaders from education and business, communities and academia to say that it is time to strike the shackles of an outdated school calendar from our disadvantaged schools.

All I suggest is to make K-12 like higher education. Higher education in the United States is the best in the world because these institutions compete with each other for your tuition dollar. Let's just bring competition to public education.

I started Knewton to do my bit to fix the world's education system.

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.

Inner city education must change. Our responsibility is not merely to provide access to knowledge; we must produce educated people.

Competition has not worked in education because it has never really been tried.

Improving our nation's education system has long been the cornerstone of my policy agenda.

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

We have to fix the education system.

We should have better schools.

I am excited to return to city schools... and to continue doing the work to ensure that every child in Baltimore City receives a world-class education.

Los Angeles has all the ingredients of success... but we need to start with our education system.

Often times, when we talk about improving our public schools, it is easy to come back to the question of money. Are schools basically fine, just underfunded? Millennials say no - more funding isn't the cure-all for what ails our schools.