Betsy DeVos Quotes

If you want a good education, go to private schools. If you can't afford it, tough luck. You can go to the public school.

I'm not knocking private schools, but I owe it to my kids to let them grow up in a place where private school isn't required. They're only in school 6-8 hours a day; they have to live in their neighborhood 24 hours a day. I didn't want them growing up in a place where anybody with the means had abandoned their public schools.

The vast majority of students in this country will continue to attend public schools.

If you make the decision to send your kid to public school don't even look at private schools. Just shut the door. Just turn off the TV. And then you don't even have to worry about preschool. You have to worry about what's good for your kid, but you don't have to worry about how to position yourself.

Grammar schools are public schools without the sodomy.

My primary and secondary education was provided by the Highland Park Public School System.

So I want my kids to go to public schools because I think it's a better education overall.

I was born and raised in California and benefited from California's excellent public schools, from kindergarten through medical school.

You've got to have a good public education system so small-business owners, when they locate to an area, are confident their kids are getting the best education possible. I feel strongly about local control in school districts.

There were only two other Chinese families in this town of 25,000, but to our parents, the determining factor was the quality of the public school system.

I made a different decision to send my children to the local state school.

Equal access to public education has been achieved. But what is the good of access to a failing school?

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.

There's no silver bullet when it comes to helping all children achieve. Great public schools are our best shot.

I'm a proud product of the Massachusetts public schools.

No family should feel they need to leave San Francisco to find a great public education.

I'm a product of public schools. They are resource-challenged, and when you take those dollars away from public schools and send them to private schools, you're further starving the system.

Schools should be open. If it's a public education, and the school in your district is poor-performing, you should be able to put your student or kid wherever you want.

I went to a fairly normal, middle-of-the-road public school in a suburb of New Orleans, but it gave me huge opportunities.

I do look upon the secretary of education's primary responsibility as the quality of education that - and improving the education that every child in American public schools receives.

Every city should make the common school so rich, so large, so ample, so beautiful in its endowments, and so fruitful in its results, that a private school will not be able to live under the drip of it.

The best schools in Arizona are charter schools. The worst schools in Arizona are charter schools.

We are spending a lot of money on our schools. We’ve got to make ourselves accountable for the results.

Government schools lead to the indoctrination of children and interferes with the free choice of individuals. Government ownership, operation and subsidy of schools and colleges should be ended.

I am increasingly ready to junk the public school system.