Jim Clyburn Quotes

I am opposed to the use of public funds for private education.

The problems of public schools will not be solved by cutting off the source of their funding, which is what vouchers are.

Millennials are not deeply familiar with school choice, and have some reservations, especially about the types of institutions that a student might choose to attend with taxpayer dollars.

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

There is no more reason to pay for private education than there is to pay for a private swimming pool for those who do not use public facilities.

I don't believe in private education.

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

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

Legislatures not driven to desperation by the problems of public education may be able to see the threat in vouchers negotiable in sectarian schools.

We don't have the money in America to keep paying for the education of everybody else's children from around the world. We simply don't have the financial resources to do that.

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.

The sheltering of upper income children in private schools not only accelerates the deterioration of public education, it hides its consequences from precisely those people who could do something about it.

Public schooling is welfare for the middle class.

Public education is the great equalizer of America.

I'm not knocking private schools, but I owe it to my kids to let them grow up in a place where private school isn't required. They're only in school 6-8 hours a day; they have to live in their neighborhood 24 hours a day. I didn't want them growing up in a place where anybody with the means had abandoned their public schools.

… the state, the government, the laws must not in any way concern themselves with schooling or education. Public funds must not be used for such purposes. The rearing and instruction of youth must be left entirely to parents and to private associations and institutions…. Continued adherence to a policy of compulsory education is utterly incompatible with efforts to establish lasting peace.

I'm a product of public schools. They are resource-challenged, and when you take those dollars away from public schools and send them to private schools, you're further starving the system.

We're not proposing any shifting of funding from public schools to private schools.

The way I want to try and end private schools is by making our national education service so good you wouldn't want to waste your money.

Economic growth is important. But we cannot count on economic growth alone to fund the public education system our children need and deserve.

We need to increase education budgets.

Our schools should get five years to get back to where they were in 1963. If they're still bad maybe we should declare educational bankruptcy, give the people their money and let them educate themselves and start their own schools.

Liberals tend to stress how marvelous education is, in and of itself, and also adore it as a vessel for genuine equality. (That's me, by the way: Hell, I think we should be spending $50 billion a year to make college education free).

The unions no longer control the education agenda of the Democratic Party.

From kindergarten to graduation, I went to public schools, and I know that they are a key to being sure that every child has a chance to succeed and to rise in the world.