Cedric Richmond Quotes

We are looking for ways to decrease the dropout rate. I am pretty sure, if we eliminate career and technical education, we are going to increase the dropout rate.

And yet 50 percent of the kids who start high school in the United States today do not finish high school.

While I do commend the Administration on its commitment and focus on high school reform, I believe that we must focus on graduation as the key accountability measure.

The government sets targets for increased four-year high school graduation rates as part of its agenda for improving Americans' health.

I dropped out of school.

You can finish school as soon as you finish the GCSE's.

I never went to college - I barely got out of high school.

All students should have the opportunity to receive their high school diplomas and be fully prepared for college or the workplace.

Our record number of teenagers must become our record number of high school and college graduates and our record number of teachers, scientists, doctors, lawyers, and skilled professionals.

I did drop out of school.

Children don't drop out of high school when they are 16, they do so in the first grade and wait 10 years to make it official.

If you're planning on dropping out of high school, prepare yourself for the future by repeating aloud each day: 'I'm looking forward to low-paying jobs for the rest of my life.'

Eighty-two percent of prisoners in the United States are high-school dropouts. A high-school dropout between the ages of 30 and 34 is two-thirds more likely to be in jail, or to have been in jail, or to be dead.

I had, before I went to college, I had taken a few years off after high school and really had, I guess in those days, I had no intentions of going to college.

High school dropouts are forfeiting their opportunity to pursue the American Dream.

With Michigan's economic future on the line, we can't afford to have our 500 local school districts marching in different directions. Instead, we need a high standards, mandatory curriculum to get all our students on the road to higher education and a good paying job.

I stopped going to school in the middle of fourth grade. Everyone grows up with the peer pressure, and kids being mean to each other in school. I think that's such a horrible thing, but I never really dealt with it in a high school way.

Let's focus on how we can take someone who is being poorly educated in an American public school and how they are poorly trained for a job, and put in place those opportunities for them to get that education, give their parents choice in education, make it real for them.

I had no idea what I was going to do when they threw me out of school.

When I was a child I didn't care about getting an education, and I didn't finish high school.

Currently, only 70 percent of our high school students earn diplomas with their peers, and less than one-third of our high school students graduate prepared for success in a four-year college.

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.

There are a lot of stats and a strong correlation between dropout rates and crime as well as poverty.

I went through high school, but I didn't graduate.

Gov. Jeb Bush and the Florida Legislature's strong commitment to increase access to Advanced Placement courses continues to pay off.