Eva Moskowitz Quotes

It's time to update traditional public schools, charter schools, home schools, online schools and parochial schools. Let the dollars follow the child instead of forcing the child to follow the dollars, so that every child has the opportunity to attain an education.

A core part of Teach For America's mission has always been affecting positive change in the traditional public school system.

Looking ahead, I can see more and more instances where I will disagree with the president on very fundamental issues. The largest, for me, is education.

I have maintained a passionate interest in education, which leads me occasionally to make foolish and ill-considered remarks alleging that not everything is well in our schools.

It's not enough to train today's workforce. We also have to prepare tomorrow's workforce by guaranteeing every child access to a world-class education.

Teach For America is working hard to be one significant source of the leadership we need.

President-elect Bush spoke in a forceful and candid manner that it is his passion that all children should have access to a first class education.

What I see is democratizing education will change everything.

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.

Comprehensive schools, as too few understand, have never been designed to improve education.

Access to a quality education in our country is a civil right for all Americans young and old. But to ensure it for scores of our fellow Americans, we must rethink education.

I've never believed the charter movement was exclusively for socially and economically disadvantaged kids.

Regardless of their parent's income or zip code, every child in Georgia deserves access to a high-quality, affordable education.

We need to focus on helping EVERY child to get a world-class education in EVERY school in this country.

During consideration in the Education and the Workforce Committee this year, Democrats and Republicans worked constructively together to improve the delivery of Head Start services to the target populations.

The greatest obstacle to those who hope to reform American education is complacency.

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

In Barack Obama, we have a great education president who is rebuilding America. His Race to the Top program is doing more to 'spur us' to improve our public schools than anything we've ever done as a nation.

I believe we need a national amendment which will guarantee every child in America the promise of not just an equal education but a high-quality equal education.

Even on education, his one accomplishment, the Leave No Child Behind Act, and he has left it unfunded.

Wisconsin's kids shouldn't be allowed to fail just because Washington is failing them.

It's not easy for the average family to ensure that their child receives a quality education. And the federal government is not making it any easier.

A high-speed connection is no more an essential civil right than 3G cell phone service or a Netflix account. Increasing competition and restoring academic excellence in abysmal public schools is far more of an imperative to minority children than handing them iPads.

My husband was working as principal of an urban transformation high school - the kind of public charter school determined to do whatever it takes to give its mostly minority, low-income student body the education they need and deserve to be successful in life.

America's public schools have served their purpose. Free and compulsory education was good for a somewhat unpromising young nation.