Gretchen Whitmer Quotes

I am increasingly ready to junk the public school system.

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

I've never believed the charter movement was exclusively for socially and economically disadvantaged kids.

A core part of Teach For America's mission has always been affecting positive change in the traditional public school system.

I believe there ought to be school choice, so that parents can choose within the public school system.

School choice is the civil rights issue of the 21st century.

As more government functions are privatized, we find political leaders defunding the public school system, shifting government funds to the private, for-profit school industry.

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

The abolition of the separate school system in the south raises serious practical problems.... We face the abolition of the public school system. Boldness is essential but wisdom is indispensable.

When people lose faith in a system as they have in the public school system, they no longer want to support it.

Right-wingers don't want public education to succeed.

Public schools in the late '80s and early '90s were a total mess... we felt that if I was going to have a good educational option in my life, I would have to go to a public school district that actually served its children.

We all have a stake in ensuring that all students have the schools they deserve and that communities are leading this effort, not being left behind. To do that, we must challenge unchecked charter expansion and the forces driving it.

While the public school rewards failure by throwing more government money at failing school systems, the voucher system does the opposite.

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

Charter schools are not a panacea.

Public education is so important - resisting privatization and charterization, high-stakes testing, and defunding. It's important for New York, but it's also important for the country.

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

As the son of a union activist and a lifelong Democrat, I've always thought that privatizing our public schools is not the answer. We must strengthen public schools.

Even on education, his one accomplishment, the Leave No Child Behind Act, and he has left it unfunded.

The problem with K-12 education is socialism and the solution is capitalism.

I'm a very big public school advocate.

The difference between the denominational system and the public school system is all the difference between bolstering them up on the one hand and letting them alone of the other.

Our public school system is our country's biggest and most inefficient monopoly, yet it keeps demanding more and more money.

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