Donald Trump Quotes

We're going to end Common Core. Going to bring our education local.

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

I don't want Washington - let me be perfectly clear - I do not want Washington involved in local education decisions any more than I want them involved in common core. You know, common core was a state-created and state-implemented voluntary set of standards in Math and English that are comparable across state lines.

There is no question we need higher academic standards and at the local level the rigor of the Common Core state standards must be the new minimum in classrooms.

We do need curriculum reform. And it should happen at the state and local level. That is where educational policy belongs, because if a parent is unhappy with what their child is being taught in school, they can go to that local school board or their state legislature, or their governor and get it changed.

I'm not cutting services. But I'm cutting spending. But I may cut Department of Education. I believe common core is a very bad thing. I believe that we should be lo - you know, educating our children from Iowa, from New Hampshire, from South Carolina, from California, from New York. I think that it should be local education.

I believe in local control of education.

States are free to modify the Common Core State Standards or adopt their own individual standards, because academic standards are the prerogative of the states.

The Washington-knows-best approach has repeatedly failed the very children it proposes to help. It's time to roll back Common Core and return education to the people who it matters most to - children, parents, and teachers.

Classrooms cannot and should not be coerced into adopting federal academic standards. That's not just my belief; it's federal law.

Parents and teachers alike are alarmed by this top-down approach to education that wrongly ties education money for states to the adoption of academic standards that do not fully reflect the values of South Carolina.

When it comes to education, no solution, not even ones we like, should be dictated or run from Washington, D.C.

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

I want to get rid of Common Core.

For decades, the public school system failed too many children, so we passed the No Child Left Behind Act and demanded schools show results in return for money.

Common Core has been eliminated in New Jersey.

The inner cities, education is almost worthless, it's horrible. We're going to have Common Core ended.

As a school board member, I might have particular views about the ways we might increase the economics curriculum in a local high school, but I'm not sure I should mandate that for the entire country.

Education needs to be personalized and flexible, which means education policy needs to originate from our local communities and not from some bureaucrats in Washington, D.C.

Education is largely run at the state level.

Common Core is a big win for education.

Beginning with the No Child Left Behind law and continuing today with Race to the Top, the federal emphasis on standardized assessments has become so excessive that it has modified state and district behavior in troubling ways.

Centralized national decision-making on education reduces the role of the parent and the local districts.

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

I trust Colorado families and teachers way more than I trust D.C. central planners who think they know better than parents do.