Michael Gove Quotes

I'm a very big public school advocate.

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 have long been an advocate of school choice, but I also believe the problem lies with school administrators and union leaders who refuse to believe there is such a thing as a bad school.

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.

Our schools should get five years to get back to where they were in 1963. If they're still bad maybe we should declare educational bankruptcy, give the people their money and let them educate themselves and start their own schools.

And there should not be a limit on the creation of new public schools. We ought to expand choices for parents.

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

The top priority is leaving no child behind. We want accountability in the system, and we want schools to recognize they have a responsibility to teach students.

Nor, in our own country, must we fail to take notice of the establishment of School Boards.

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

In my mind, there is no reason public school reform should be a partisan issue.

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.

Keep the Federal skunk out of our schools.

Most governors know more about education than other elected officials because education is our major job.

Schools should be held accountable for results.

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

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

I urge the Department of Education not to settle for half-measures when it comes to students.

We have to fix the education system.

If confirmed, I will be a strong advocate for great public schools.

An early attempt at education choice was charter schools. These were meant to attract the best and brightest students and provide them a level of education they often could not find in their local school districts. The problem is that, of the thousands of charter schools, many are outright failures.

For decades, the public school system failed too many children, so we passed the No Child Left Behind Act and demanded schools show results in return for money.

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

It is possible to have a public education system that works.

We stand for getting government out of the way, letting people make good decisions for themselves, in education, returning power to school boards and to teachers and to parents so they can educate the children.