Barack Obama Quotes

I think charter schools, choice, and frankly school standards need a champion.

I've consistently said, we need to support charter schools. I think it is important to experiment, by looking at how we can reward excellence in the classroom.

Support charters; insist on change for failing schools.

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

Charter schools are public schools. They're paid for publicly and they're part of the public system. They just have a more independent structure.

One of my main legislative efforts in education is to help expand and replicate successful charter schools. Charter schools are public schools with site-based governance.

I just cannot understand why we can't have better schools. That private schools are the only option for the kind of high-net-worth crowd, I think, is ridiculous. It should be a major initiative. It should be something we're all working on. We have to get our head out of the clouds.

90 percent of American schoolchildren are in public schools. And the emphasis on private schools and charter schools and parochial schools is not unimportant.

I am going to provide school choice and put an end to common core and bring our education local.

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

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.

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.

There is a growing acceptance and interest in publicly funded school choice as a catalyst for education reform in general and a way to empower parents to be education reformers.

There has been a growing consensus across the country - from statehouses to the White House and the halls of Congress - that we need to take dramatic steps to improve our secondary schools.

We have a law that allows us to establish charter schools here in this state. We ought to get going on it.

I just have a position that any child that's in a failing school should be able to get out, or be in a position to have that school fixed.

The key for all cities is whether you turn the public schools around.

The movement for the democratic idea inevitably became a movement for publicly conducted and administered schools.

I am increasingly ready to junk the public school system.

That's why I created the New America School - to fill the cracks in our public education system.

I know that the DeVos agenda has absolutely devastated our public school system in Michigan.

Charter schools are not a panacea.

If charter schools are not more successful on average than the public schools they replace, what is accomplished by demolishing public education? What is the rationale for authorizing for-profit charters or charter management organizations with high-paid executives, since their profits and high salaries are paid by taxpayers' dollars?

Betsy DeVos is not the most informed person on education policy, but I have seen her present a few times, and she presents as a pretty respectable, intelligent person who has cared passionately about education and cares about charter schools.

I think the prospect of bringing back grammar schools has always been wrong and I've never supported it. And I don't think any Conservative government would have done it.