Kirsten Gillibrand Quotes

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

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.

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

My People First Education plan includes universal pre-K for 3- and 4-year-olds, because the research is very clear that if you have a dollar to spend in education, it's best spent early on with high-quality pre-K so that kids can get off to a strong start.

Research has shown time and time again that infants who receive the high-quality child care and early education programs do better in school, have more developed social skills, and display fewer behavior problems.

If we are serious about providing upward mobility and building a skilled workforce, pre-school is the place to begin.

Every child should have the opportunity to receive a quality education.

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

Although children are only 24 percent of the population, they're 100 percent of our future and we cannot afford to provide any child with a substandard education.

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.

What makes me angry? The education of children. How in God's name can you expect to have a functioning society the way we teach our kids?

Middle-class families know education begins at birth.

Too often we act - ask our schools to be truant officers, our teachers to be truant officers, because we're giving them children who have, you know, they're not ready to learn. And if they're not ready to learn by the third grade, they know they're behind.

It is … interest of all, that every one, from birth, should be well educated.

K to 12 is partly about babysitting the kids so the parents can do other things.

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

To achieve our goals of educating bold and ambitious children, we must invest in enriching, quality early child care and learning.

Early care and education helps children build the skills they need for success in kindergarten and can help close the achievement gap.

Head Start is designed to ensure that all children - regardless of their family's income, race, or ethnic background - are able to enter kindergarten ready to learn.

Early childhood education is an urgent educational, economic and moral imperative. Without it, we face a long-term national economic security crisis.

The one thing we can do is invest in the quality of education, especially higher education.

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

As a teacher you can see the difference in kids who have parents who were involved. That difference, by the time these kids get to the third grade, is drastic.

The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child's home.

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