Michelle Lujan Grisham Quotes

Schools should be held accountable for results.

I'm clear that we do need to improve what's happening in our schools.

Many more schools can be outstanding.

And I think that's righteous, I think that's what parents want to know. They want to know what's going right in the school, and what needs improvement, and that's what this law does.

Scholarships that allow students to get a good education are important, but first we want to measure the progress that the schools are teaching our students, we want to hold them accountable for the progress, we want to hold the schools accountable for teaching the young people in America.

The best schools in Arizona are charter schools. The worst schools in Arizona are charter schools.

Standardized tests are an indicator of the kind of service taxpayers are receiving - and whether schools, educators and policymakers are doing their jobs. In the United States, taxpayers spend almost $600 billion annually on public education, so it's not unreasonable to ask what all that money is producing. In fact, it's irresponsible not to know.

Research shows that there is only half as much variation in student achievement between schools as there is among classrooms in the same school. If you want your child to get the best education possible, it is actually more important to get him assigned to a great teacher than to a great school.

The No Child Left Behind Program was an incentive to the schools to get their kids up to snuff on math and science and reading.

Many people want to send their children to faith schools because they get good exam results, but they're not foolish enough to believe that it's because of faith that they get good exam results.

We know the parental support, community support, makes a difference. It's not just the metrics of testing and putting pressure on the schools and on the teachers.

When you introduce competition into the public school system, most studies show that schools start to do better when they are competing for students.

Most governors know more about education than other elected officials because education is our major job.

Federal oversight has focused primarily on fiscal accountability and not on educational accountability.

We talk a good fight about wanting to have excellent schools when in fact we're content to have average ones.

For many years we have spent a great deal of effort and money on school reform. Yet where are we today?

If my child were in a school where he was not learning, I would not wait for a gathering of social scientists to tell me whether it was okay for me to send him to another school.

I believe Ofsted measures poverty. It measures deprivation. It doesn't measure excellence.

It is necessary and critical for states to have flexibility to determine how to identify and improve schools.

Often times, when we talk about improving our public schools, it is easy to come back to the question of money. Are schools basically fine, just underfunded? Millennials say no - more funding isn't the cure-all for what ails our schools.

You can't just abandon accountability measures in schools... Educators want that because otherwise they can't identify achievement-gap issues for students.

Students coming from father-present families score higher in math and science even when they come from weaker schools.

I do look upon the secretary of education's primary responsibility as the quality of education that - and improving the education that every child in American public schools receives.

If you serve a child a rotten hamburger in America, federal, state, and local agencies will investigate you, summon you, close you down, whatever. But if you provide a child with a rotten education, nothing happens, except that you're liable to be given more money to do it with. Well, we've discovered that money alone isn't the answer.

You wouldn't go to a hospital, you wouldn't go to a law firm where the doctors and lawyers were not retained on merit: where they all had tenure regardless of competence. Parents feel the same way about schools that they send their children to.