Killer Mike Quotes

Obviously, this whole 'no child left behind' idea is more rhetoric than actual practice.

Federal government has forced a one-size-fits-all model on our education system.

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

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.

When I talk to teachers, parents, superintendents, my colleagues, everyone wants to fix No Child Left behind. There is great dissatisfaction with No Child Left Behind.

I looked at No Child Left Behind after it was enacted and saw what happened and saw the expansion of the federal government and the role of education. And I said, you know, that was - that's not what I believe in.

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

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.

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

In DC, policymakers think that if we can only have high enough standards, tough enough tests, and hold people accountable, we can close the achievement gap. And it hasn't happened. Yet the new law, the Every Student Succeeds Act, is based on the same test-based and market-driven framework and ideology, except it lets the states do it.

The number one issue facing cities isn’t crimes or jobs anymore, it’s public education.

Competition has not worked in education because it has never really been tried.

We still have two public school systems in the United States: One for the haves and one for the have-nots.

The public education system works for children of families like mine but it does not work for the children of families who I represent …

… while they're adding teachers in places like South Korea, we're laying them off in droves. It's unfair to our kids. It undermines their future and ours. And it has to stop. Pass this bill, and put our teachers back in the classroom where they belong.

You know there's a problem [with the education system] when you realize that out of the three R’s, only one begins with an R.

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

That's why I created the New America School - to fill the cracks in our public education system.

What I see is democratizing education will change everything.

Beginning with the No Child Left Behind law and continuing today with Race to the Top, the federal emphasis on standardized assessments has become so excessive that it has modified state and district behavior in troubling ways.

I am pro-education. I'm just anti the system.

What we need is an education system that works for every child, not a select few. This starts with providing a quality education for our youngest Americans so they can learn, grow, and become prosperous citizens.

Too many children today are trapped in schools that don't work for them.