Doug Ducey Quotes

Education needs to be our state's top priority.

I am very proud of the quality of public education in Nebraska, but I believe we have an obligation to continually assess whether our system is meeting 21st Century education needs.

We need to increase education budgets.

Maryland schools succeed because we have never stopped investing in our students and doing the things that work.

Investing in children's education is vital.

Every dollar spent on education should go toward helping our teachers teach and our students learn.

No Child Left Behind's fourth-grade gains aren't learning gains, they're testing gains. That's why they don't last. The law is a distraction from things that really count.

If there's one thing that 'No Child Left Behind' has proven, it's that more academics don't make for smarter children - or even higher test scores. And yet we somehow refuse to accept this reality.

I think we're doing a dreadful job of educating.

As a former high school teacher, I know that investing in education is one of the most important things we can do, not only for our children, but for the benefit of our whole community.

Education should be one of our top funding priorities; talking about it does not help the teachers and students who desperately need promises fulfilled.

I don't think the schools are getting as much money as they should.

At the federal level, we must help, not hinder, local school boards, parents, teachers and administrators as they make decisions about educating our children.

School district policies and practices have not kept pace with student and teacher needs.

We at the Department of Education are going to provide technical assistance; I've committed $14 million to show states how they might meet this more sophisticated approach.

We have to build a better education in this country. We need to step it up.

As a former teacher and a mother and grandmother, I know firsthand the importance of a quality education.

We really shouldn't be running education like a supermarket where you compare prices.

In the education debate, people are so passionate about their ideas that we often end up expending more energy shouting at each other than we do pushing for the fundamentals to success in all schools.

This nation suffers from three deficits—a trade deficit, a budget deficit, and an education deficit. I submit, that the trade and budget deficits will not be resolved until we overcome the education deficit.

I am going to use every rostrum and every forum and every searchlight that I can to tell the people of the country and their elected representatives that we can no longer afford overcrowded classrooms and half-day sessions. We just must not, we just cannot afford the great waste that comes from the neglect of a single child.

You can’t reform education without spending some money.

We are having trouble finding teachers to teach STEM. We also need to make sure schools have the resources. Some communities have multiple computers for each student in their schools. Other schools don't have textbooks, let alone computers.

We know that there will never be a great Newark unless there is a great public school system for our city.

More than anything, we must do better for our children's education.