Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Quotes

A core part of Teach For America's mission has always been affecting positive change in the traditional public school system.

If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.

During my time as a state legislator, I've pushed for significant investment in public school districts. In Congress, I would look forward to increasing federal public investment in education through initiatives like Race to the Top.

I believe there ought to be school choice, so that parents can choose within the public school system.

And there should not be a limit on the creation of new public schools. We ought to expand choices for parents.

Looking ahead, I can see more and more instances where I will disagree with the president on very fundamental issues. The largest, for me, is education.

Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

Our public school system is our country's biggest and most inefficient monopoly, yet it keeps demanding more and more money.

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.

The abolition of the separate school system in the south raises serious practical problems.... We face the abolition of the public school system. Boldness is essential but wisdom is indispensable.

When people lose faith in a system as they have in the public school system, they no longer want to support it.

Equal access to public education has been achieved. But what is the good of access to a failing school?

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

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.

Much of the criticism centered around Betsy DeVos focuses on her lack of experience with public schools. While she has shown some interest in 'protecting' students from the non-existent threat of grizzlies wandering onto their campuses, she has never run, taught in, attended, or sent a child to a public school.

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

Access to a quality education in our country is a civil right for all Americans young and old. But to ensure it for scores of our fellow Americans, we must rethink education.

Charter schools were supposed to compete with public schools, and in turn, that competition was meant to improve education. But that wasn't the end result.

The way I want to try and end private schools is by making our national education service so good you wouldn't want to waste your money.

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

I'm very, very focused on not only creating world class schools at scale, but changing the public policy in this country that every day prevents children from getting access to the American dream.

The greatest obstacle to those who hope to reform American education is complacency.

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.

Our schools should get five years to get back to where they were in 1963. If they're still bad maybe we should declare educational bankruptcy, give the people their money and let them educate themselves and start their own schools.