Madeleine M. Kunin Quotes

If we want to close the achievement gap, build a well-educated workforce and responsible citizenry, we must start with our youngest children.

In 2009, I pushed for the creation and funding of early childhood block grants to ensure that more kids enter kindergarten ready to learn. It's really not rocket science: Put kids on the right path at an early age - and keep them there.

Every child should be given a strong start to their education.

The research clearly demonstrates high-quality early childhood opportunities help children succeed.

We need to provide higher quality and innovative early childhood development programs all throughout Latin America.

We're committed to making sure parents have affordable, quality early learning for their kids - there's no question about it.

It is imperative to change the way we look at education. We should invest in the foundation of school readiness from birth to age 5.

Middle-class families know education begins at birth.

I’m running for Governor so that all our children can go to kindergarten.

Both the IDB and Fundacion ALAS believe that the future of prosperity and equality that we hope for has to start today with higher investment and higher quality in Early Childhood Development programs throughout the region.

The smartest thing we can do to create high-wage jobs and grow our economy is to keep our focus on education.

Through the Committee on Education and the Workforce, we need to ensure we are educating a future generation to achieve a workforce for the 21st century. I believe the best education solutions come from those closest to the students: state and local entities.

Early childhood education begins early, even before birth.

Our children are our greatest resource and Head Start grants help them reach their full potential.

Head Start has been a key component of health, nutrition and early learning opportunities since the 1960s.

Economic prosperity and quality education for our children are inexorably linked.

Experts tell us that 90% of all brain development occurs by the age of five. If we don't begin thinking about education in the early years, our children are at risk of falling behind by the time they start Kindergarten.

I was on the San Diego school board for 4 years, where I watched children successfully matriculate into elementary schools from Head Start programs from all around our city.

If we expect our children to thrive at our colleges and universities, and succeed in our economy once they graduate - first we must make quality, affordable early childhood education accessible to all.

You can't have a sustainable US economy without a great education system. Teach students to do the job right. You don't have an innovative economy unless you have a great education.

The key to America's economic future is educating kids as early in their lives as we can.

Early childhood education is the key to the betterment of society.

The number one way that we can address these long-term challenges of poverty, of education, is to invest in early childhood education.

I have a vision of education that spans from early childhood to K-12 to college to the workforce. Because every step along the way is important: a chance for our state to do right by our kids and their parents - or to let them down.

Educating bold and ambitious children from cradle to career stands as a clear and foundational goal for Georgia.