Eva Moskowitz Quotes

A high-speed connection is no more an essential civil right than 3G cell phone service or a Netflix account. Increasing competition and restoring academic excellence in abysmal public schools is far more of an imperative to minority children than handing them iPads.

We need to focus on helping EVERY child to get a world-class education in EVERY school in this country.

I believe we need a national amendment which will guarantee every child in America the promise of not just an equal education but a high-quality equal education.

There is nothing more important to our Nation's future, to our homeland security, and to our economy than ensuring we have a top-notch educational system that is the envy of the world.

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of leaders from education and business, communities and academia to say that it is time to strike the shackles of an outdated school calendar from our disadvantaged schools.

Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource - the minds of our children.

Obviously, this whole 'no child left behind' idea is more rhetoric than actual practice.

President-elect Bush spoke in a forceful and candid manner that it is his passion that all children should have access to a first class education.

Education is the civil rights issue of our era.

If we get public education right, everything else will follow. But if we get it wrong, not much else will matter.

The country that consistently ranks among the highest in educational achievement is Finland. A rich country, but education is free. Germany, education is free. France, education is free.

We cannot, as a country, improve economically, socially, and culturally without quality education.

What we need is an education system that works for every child, not a select few. This starts with providing a quality education for our youngest Americans so they can learn, grow, and become prosperous citizens.

Comprehensive schools, as too few understand, have never been designed to improve education.

No country which is now developed has done so without providing high quality public education.

Regardless of their parent's income or zip code, every child in Georgia deserves access to a high-quality, affordable education.

Arizona has three of the top 10 public high schools in the nation. We know how to educate a child. We just need to do it more often in more locations, and where we're having issues are in low-income areas where - where kids don't have a parent that cares or two parents that care, and, of course, also in our tribal nations.

I'm very, very focused on not only creating world class schools at scale, but changing the public policy in this country that every day prevents children from getting access to the American dream.

The greatest obstacle to those who hope to reform American education is complacency.

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.

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.

This is not a skill problem, this is a will problem. Does America have the will to make education a priority? We know the things that work. Why don't we scale up those things that do work.

I believe the government should ensure all children are provided with a good education.

Education in India has made monumental progress since Independence but continues to face daunting challenges at multiple levels, particularly in terms of quality, infrastructure and dropout rates. We have islands of excellence floating in a sea of mediocrity.