Richard Attias Quotes

All around the world, we send our top talent into finance, technology, medicine and law - everywhere but towards expanding opportunity for our most marginalized children.

As a former teacher and someone who has devoted her entire career to children and public schools, I understand the pain and frustration of parents who feel their children are not receiving the education they deserve.

I didn't design schools for poor kids. I'm designing schools to be world-class.

Ensuring all kids have access to an effective, talented teacher needs to be a national priority.

I'd like to work on job and educational opportunities for all.

I believe the government should ensure all children are provided with a good education.

Everybody should be interested in access to primary and secondary education for everybody.

I'm not a very good advertisement for the American school system.

I would provide more opportunities for the kids of urban communities to go to school and learn trades - to get more jobs to take care of their families.

Whether it's in an inner-city school or a rural community, I want those students to have a chance to take A.P. biology and A.P. physics and marine biology.

It is very important that our young people have constructive early work experiences. But it is equally important that their jobs are safe and complement their education, rather than complete it.

A high-speed connection is no more an essential civil right than 3G cell phone service or a Netflix account. Increasing competition and restoring academic excellence in abysmal public schools is far more of an imperative to minority children than handing them iPads.

Secure for young people the right to education and to full-time work.

I'm here to talk about Job Corps training—just Job Corps training.

The advocates of the higher education of the Negro would be the last to deny the incompleteness and glaring defects of the present system: too many institutions have attempted to do college work, the work in some cases has not been thoroughly done, and quantity rather than quality has sometimes been sought. But all this can be said of higher education throughout the land.

I know what the teachers got. I know what the politicians got. But I don’t know what the kids got/

I am an earnest advocate of manual training and trade teaching for black boys, and for white boys, too.

Apprenticeships are the real nitty-gritty way of creating an efficient, skillful and vibrant workforce.

I want to make sure every child has the opportunity for quality education.

We need good reading programs, and we need equity in schools.

We need more partnerships like Vigor Industrial and Portland Community College where men and women in search of a career can get the training they need to get hired right out of school.

Regardless of their parent's income or zip code, every child in Georgia deserves access to a high-quality, affordable education.

We've got to create strategies of our own that ensure that our kids are going to get an education they need, that people are getting connected to skills and that we do more to draw investment into the city of Flint.

Above all, I believe every child, no matter their ZIP code or their parents' jobs, deserves access to a quality education.

Arizona has three of the top 10 public high schools in the nation. We know how to educate a child. We just need to do it more often in more locations, and where we're having issues are in low-income areas where - where kids don't have a parent that cares or two parents that care, and, of course, also in our tribal nations.