Laura Kelly Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

Governor Romney has said nothing about preschool. I think that giving the poorest kids in America wonderful preschool, and three years of it, starting when they are two-and-a-half, is absolutely crucial.

I have long been a supporter of the Head Start program because each and every year I witness the dramatic positive impact that early intervention services have on children's lives in my congressional district.

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

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.

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

I focus on supporting high quality early childhood health care and education. By betting my resources on very young children, I know I'm making an investment that pays guaranteed dividends with a high rate of return.

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

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.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

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

Oh, when I was mayor of San Antonio, I pushed for expanding high-quality, full-day pre-K. We didn't have the resources to make it universal, but you could clearly see that that was what I wanted to do.

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

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.

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

Both the quantity and quality of the words children hear during their first three years of life make an enormous difference in how prepared they are to start school, and ultimately, their long-term achievement.

Access to quality early care and education is an important part of our efforts to make San Francisco more equitable, and ensure that every child who grows up here can thrive.

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.

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

The goal of the Head Start program is to give at-risk children all across our Nation a fair chance at succeeding in the educational system.