Rick Santorum Quotes

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

Congress has an opportunity to take advantage of the opening created by Justice Kennedy later this year when it reauthorizes the federal No Child Left Behind Act.

The No Child Left Behind Act will be one of President Bush's enduring legacies. And it was engineered and inaugurated with a truly bipartisan coalition in Congress. Accountability, standards, and truly measuring student performance just makes sense. The only real debate about the law was and is whether or not it was adequately funded.

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

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

'No Child Left Behind' requires states and school districts to ensure that all students are learning and are reaching their highest potential. Special education students should not be left out of these accountability mechanisms.

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.

I remember when President Bush, George W. Bush, came into office, he focused on No Child Left Behind, and with - and before very long, suddenly, Republicans were thought of as being as interested and as competent in education as Democrats, and why? Because they were talking about it and doing something about it.

No Child Left Behind taught us that parents, teachers and state and local leaders are more suited to address students' needs than a one-size-fits-all accountability system developed by Washington bureaucrats.

For six and a half years, I had responsibility for leading the Labour party policy on education and delivering on our promise of improved opportunities for all our children.

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.

Mr. Obama seeks to federalize large portions of education, beginning with his attempt to nationalize college student loans.

But then it hasn't really been a focus of our government to make us an educated people.

It's not easy for the average family to ensure that their child receives a quality education. And the federal government is not making it any easier.

With the enactment of the bipartisan No Child Left Behind Act, we have taken an important step toward achieving federal education policies that will allow students to learn and achieve at the highest possible level.

The government's most creative and significant duty is education.

I think that there should be national standards in reading and math and maybe history and civics….We have a culture of non-compliance with Federal requirements in education.

Federal government has forced a one-size-fits-all model on our education system.

I had a moment where I left journalism, and I started getting interested in this issue and writing about it, where I felt there was a right side and a wrong side around a lot of these issues relating to education.

I believe Betsy DeVos has the talent, commitment, and leadership capacity to revitalize our public schools and deliver the promise of opportunity that excellent education provides, and I support her nomination as U.S. Secretary of Education.

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

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.

Latinos care about education, yes, so we need reform, not just money.

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.

Teach For America provides one of the most critical pipelines for bringing new talent into public education.