Rachel Campos-Duffy Quotes

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

I'm proposing a plan to provide school choice to every disadvantaged student in America.

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.

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.

Public education is the great equalizer of America.

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.

We must ensure that every single child can go as far as their ability and their aspirations will take them.

Get rid of Betsy DeVos.

The push to defund public schools and reroute taxpayer money to charters and private institutions is actually a very clever strategy by the Right Wing, which has always had a great deal of disdain for a system that forces them to pay taxes toward some other kid's non-religious, science-based education.

Charter schools are not a panacea.

The quality of your public education shouldn't be defined by your zip code.

The White House, in advancing the agenda for a [school] "choice" plan, rests its faith on market mechanisms. What reason have the black and very poor to lend their credence to a market system that has proved so obdurate and so resistant to their pleas at every turn?

I am increasingly ready to junk the public school system.

We all have a stake in ensuring that all students have the schools they deserve and that communities are leading this effort, not being left behind. To do that, we must challenge unchecked charter expansion and the forces driving it.

At the end of the day, I'm really proud of the work I did to help kids get an equal opportunity, and a lot of them have.

The public education landscape is enriched by having many options - neighborhood public schools, magnet schools, community schools, schools that focus on career and technical education, and even charter schools.

While the public school rewards failure by throwing more government money at failing school systems, the voucher system does the opposite.

We need to really focus on getting this digital equity across the board in all of our public school systems, for both girls and boys.

The discovery I made was that, really, in America, if you went to high school in our country, it doesn't really matter where you went to high school. In a funny way, all high schools are the same.

I believe that every child in Maryland deserves a world-class education, regardless of what neighborhood they grow up in.

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

I know that the DeVos agenda has absolutely devastated our public school system in Michigan.

Schools should be open. If it's a public education, and the school in your district is poor-performing, you should be able to put your student or kid wherever you want.

We're not proposing any shifting of funding from public schools to private schools.

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.'