Barack Obama Quotes

I mentioned charter schools, and experimenting with our school system, to make it work. I think that's something we really have to pay attention to.

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

Support charters; insist on change for failing schools.

Charter schools in particular have proven a lifeline for millions of children stuck in chronically failing schools.

I support charters, but the right kind of charters. I support charters that support kids who have the highest needs. A charter should be targeting students who are in serious trouble. It should serve students who didn't succeed in public schools when it can help them. Or, at least, charters should agree to accept similar proportions of the kids with the highest needs.

The role of the federal government, if any, is to create more school choice.

[Betsy DeVos] does care about charter schools, which are public schools. She does care about choice, which is a perfectly legitimate thing to care about. It's because it's the one issue where the Democratic donor base was really energized, which was the teacher unions.

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

As the son of a union activist and a lifelong Democrat, I've always thought that privatizing our public schools is not the answer. We must strengthen public schools.

Albuquerque is my home. I want my kids and all of our children to be able to go to any public or charter school and receive an excellent education.

When you introduce competition into the public school system, most studies show that schools start to do better when they are competing for students.

The strongest results were in Florida and Texas. In just one year in a Texas charter school, an average student gained 7 percentile points in math and 8 percentile points in reading, while Florida charter schools improved student performance by 6 percentile points.

Meanwhile, parents, students and teachers all report higher satisfaction with charter schools. People like them. They cost less money. They raise the academic achievement of poor kids. Go ahead, get a little enthused.

About half my work in education is U.S. political reform around school districts and charter schools, and creating more room for entrepreneurial organizations to develop. And about half on technology, which I look at as a global platform.

We have a law that allows us to establish charter schools here in this state. We ought to get going on it.

I just have a position that any child that's in a failing school should be able to get out, or be in a position to have that school fixed.

Republicans get a lot of money from big business, but they are not tied to the union dollar. As a result they have been aggressive advocates of school reform, charter schools and vouchers for private schools.

One of my main legislative efforts in education is to help expand and replicate successful charter schools. Charter schools are public schools with site-based governance.

The innovation and creativity that's so manifest in the rest of society needs to be turned on our school systems.

Parents and grandparents ought to understand the importance of making sure the next generation excels - and charter schools have proven extraordinarily successful nearly everywhere they've been tried.

I would argue that the charter schools are really good at building programming and curriculum around the issues and the interests of the kids that they serve.

Charter schools are not a panacea.

In 'The Founders,' his new book about top charter schools, Richard Whitmire traces both the 'revolution' these schools brought about in many American cities as well as a parallel phenomenon, 'the charter pushback campaigns.'

As Governor of Texas, I have set high standards for our public schools, and I have met those standards.

Drop out of the public schools. The public schools cannot be compromised with.