Lawrence M. Krauss Quotes

No matter how much you like your local school teacher, he or she is a government agent.

I do not think that the educational program of our schools should be determined by what the community thinks it needs.

Nor, in our own country, must we fail to take notice of the establishment of School Boards.

Classrooms cannot and should not be coerced into adopting federal academic standards. That's not just my belief; it's federal law.

We're going to end Common Core. Going to bring our education local.

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 in local control of education.

States are free to modify the Common Core State Standards or adopt their own individual standards, because academic standards are the prerogative of the states.

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

I concentrated on a lot of things, so very few people saw me as an education governor, an infrastructure governor.

The fundamentalists are taking over school boards and making curriculum choices for our young people.

I would rather have 1000 school board members than one president and no school board members.

Certainly, every student and school ought to have standards and evaluation, but who sets those standards, and who writes the test? Whoever controls the test controls the school.

Parents and teachers alike are alarmed by this top-down approach to education that wrongly ties education money for states to the adoption of academic standards that do not fully reflect the values of South Carolina.

I don't want Washington - let me be perfectly clear - I do not want Washington involved in local education decisions any more than I want them involved in common core. You know, common core was a state-created and state-implemented voluntary set of standards in Math and English that are comparable across state lines.

Education has not traditionally been a large concern in presidential elections, presumably because the president does not run schools.

American education will be determined by the quality of American public education, and that's public schools that are available.

To be clear, we the Department of Education want curriculum to be driven by the local level. We are by law prohibited from directing curriculum. We don't have a curriculum department.

Whoever controls the education of our children controls the future.

I am going to provide school choice and put an end to common core and bring our education local.

I'm certainly very conservative when it comes to education. We're getting rid of Common Core. We're going to have education at a local level.

I don't believe the federal government should be involved in the creation of standards directly or indirectly, the creation of curriculum or content. It is clearly a state responsibility.

Most teachers have little control over school policy or curriculum or choice of texts or special placement of students, but most have a great deal of autonomy inside the classroom. To a degree shared by only a few other occupations, such as police work, public education rests precariously on the skill and virtue of the people at the bottom of the institutional pyramid.

That the Texas Legislature, that the Texas school boards, the Texas teachers, we collectively know best how to educate our children, rather than some bureaucrat in Washington.

As a school board member, I might have particular views about the ways we might increase the economics curriculum in a local high school, but I'm not sure I should mandate that for the entire country.