Betsy DeVos Quotes

At the federal level, we must help, not hinder, local school boards, parents, teachers and administrators as they make decisions about educating our children.

Enacted under President George W. Bush's administration with the promise to focus on individual student achievement and overall school performance, No Child Left Behind was heralded as groundbreaking. And in some ways, it was.

I'm a little bit tired of people getting credit for improving education by doing the cheapest thing they can do, which is to call for the manipulation of test scores or to create new standards.

No Child Left Behind's fourth-grade gains aren't learning gains, they're testing gains. That's why they don't last. The law is a distraction from things that really count.

Hillary Clinton wants to leave behind No Child Left Behind.

We had rising student achievement across the board because high standards, robust accountability, ending social promotion in third grade, real school choice across the board, challenging the teachers union and beating them is the way to go.

I am very proud of the quality of public education in Nebraska, but I believe we have an obligation to continually assess whether our system is meeting 21st Century education needs.

When I talk to teachers, parents, superintendents, my colleagues, everyone wants to fix No Child Left behind. There is great dissatisfaction with No Child Left Behind.

I don't think of myself as a policy expert. I think education is the most important thing.

Education reform has as its main purpose to make sure that the education delivered is of quality.

We have to provide good teachers, good environment, community involvement with schools.

We have to build a better education in this country. We need to step it up.

A strong accountability system needs to broaden, not narrow, the curriculum. That cannot happen if you only have accountability without adequate school funding. Until Tallahassee understands the need to raise the bar as well as the financial investment, Florida will continue to celebrate mediocrity at the expense of true achievement.

We really shouldn't be running education like a supermarket where you compare prices.

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.

Why Not the Best?

Federal oversight has focused primarily on fiscal accountability and not on educational accountability.

Federal and State mandates don’t do anything for local schools other than to protect failure.

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

The only solution to the education system is to find yourself.

I believe education is a bipartisan issue, and I intend to support those educational policies of President Trump with which I agree.

My priorities are making sure we reduce class size and close the achievement gap.

If there's one thing that 'No Child Left Behind' has proven, it's that more academics don't make for smarter children - or even higher test scores. And yet we somehow refuse to accept this reality.

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.

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