Charlie Baker Quotes

The amount of money we spend on education is important, but not nearly as important as how the money is spent.

We can't afford not to fully fund education.

I want to see us add more dollars to the classroom.

Like health care, education is something worth spending on and worth investing in, but we're spending more and getting less.

The promise of education reform can never be fulfilled without adequate funding, and by shortchanging our schools, President Bush is breaking his promise to our children.

Common sense tells us that we should focus our resources to benefit children, teachers and taxpayers by keeping dollars in the classroom.

Once the federal dust settles, whether there is little to spend or a lot, education must continue to be our top priority. We can afford nothing less.

In education, they say either property taxes have to go up, or we'll have poor education - that's a false choice.

The budget is tight, and that is exactly where we want it to be and where we need it to be.

I believe the only measure of government response shouldn't be how much we spend on a situation, but rather how well we spend.

In a time of tight budgets, difficult choices have to be made. We must make sure our very limited resources are spent on priorities. I believe we should have no higher priority than investing in our children's classrooms and in their future.

If the government is going to mandate levels and punish schools for failing, they should send that money to the school system.

If we freed up all the money in the certification process, think about how much more money we'd have to put into teacher salaries.

Putting together a sustainable budget requires that we all work together, that we focus our scarce resources on key priorities, and that we strengthen our capacity to deliver the best product we can for the American people. And that takes money.

You know, there are some areas of the state that are providing enormous help to their students; there are others where they're not doing what they can.

I don't think the schools are getting as much money as they should.

The budget evolved from a management tool into an obstacle to management.

The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.

I am going to put money into education at the expense of other programs.

I know each fund has its supporters, and that some will not want to see the surplus go to schools. But, in tough times, you have to set priorities. And our priority is education.

More than fifty cents on the dollar in our public school system in the United States is spent on Administration. If you know of a private industry that spends more than fifty cents on the dollar on administration and is still making a profit, I would like to know what it is.

A budget in difficult times can and must serve the people for whom it is designed.

Everyone runs on an education platform. We have Education Presidents and Education Governors and Education Dog Catchers, but the dollars never match the rhetoric.

We look at education as an investment. They [the conservative Republicans] see it as an expense.

We are spending a lot of money on our schools. We’ve got to make ourselves accountable for the results.