Donald Trump Quotes

I think charter schools, choice, and frankly school standards need a champion.

We're going to end Common Core. Going to bring our education local.

I'm certainly very conservative when it comes to education. We're getting rid of Common Core. We're going to have education at a local level.

There is a growing acceptance and interest in publicly funded school choice as a catalyst for education reform in general and a way to empower parents to be education reformers.

The school system has become a part of this huge government machine, governed by people who aren't close to the situation. That's why I'm a Republican. I believe in small government.

The Washington-knows-best approach has repeatedly failed the very children it proposes to help. It's time to roll back Common Core and return education to the people who it matters most to - children, parents, and teachers.

I trust Colorado families and teachers way more than I trust D.C. central planners who think they know better than parents do.

When it comes to education, no solution, not even ones we like, should be dictated or run from Washington, D.C.

It's time to return our education policy back to local communities.

The role of the federal government, if any, is to create more school choice.

When you say you don't think we should have public schools, they can't believe you mean that. You must mean that they should be smaller. But you can't really mean no public schools.

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

The government has convinced parents that at some point it's no longer their responsibility. And in fact, they force them, in many respects, to turn their children over to the public education system and wrest control from them and block them out of participation of that. That has to change or education will not improve in this country.

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

I just have a position that any child that's in a failing school should be able to get out, or be in a position to have that school fixed.

I don't want Washington - let me be perfectly clear - I do not want Washington involved in local education decisions any more than I want them involved in common core. You know, common core was a state-created and state-implemented voluntary set of standards in Math and English that are comparable across state lines.

Education is largely run at the state level.

President-elect Trump and I know it won't be Washington, D.C., that unlocks our nation's potential, nor a bigger bureaucracy, tougher mandates, or a federal agency. The answer is local control and listening to parents, students, and teachers.

We need better public education and more realistic education.

[Betsy DeVos] is quite a smart person, capable, pretty sophisticated in subtle thought. And so to me, that puts her in the realm of policy. But we're in a climate where, as today, she tries to visit a school, and she can't even do that because protesters are blocking that.

Betsy DeVos is not the most informed person on education policy, but I have seen her present a few times, and she presents as a pretty respectable, intelligent person who has cared passionately about education and cares about charter schools.

Charter schools are public schools. They're paid for publicly and they're part of the public system. They just have a more independent structure.

I mentioned charter schools, and experimenting with our school system, to make it work. I think that's something we really have to pay attention to.

I'm proposing a plan to provide school choice to every disadvantaged student in America.

To me, it looks like an opportunity for school choice. I'd also like to see a pilot program to allow true school choice ? vouchers.