Democratic Party Quotes

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.

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

School grades can help determine how well a principal or school leader is doing, and yeah, you need to have some way to evaluate 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.

'No Child Left Behind' requires states and school districts to ensure that all students are learning and are reaching their highest potential. Special education students should not be left out of these accountability mechanisms.

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

Enacted under President George W. Bush's administration with the promise to focus on individual student achievement and overall school performance, No Child Left Behind was heralded as groundbreaking. And in some ways, it was.

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

Real improvement in our schools is not simply a matter of spending more, it is a matter of expecting more.

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

We are spending a lot of money on our schools. We’ve got to make ourselves accountable for the results.

Suffice it to say that our over-reliance on testing is based largely on habit, wishful thinking, and leaps of faith.

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

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.

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.

Earlier today, Arnold Schwarzenegger criticized the California school system, calling it disastrous. Arnold says California's schools are so bad that its graduates are willing to vote for me.

I am very proud of the quality of public education in Nebraska, but I believe we have an obligation to continually assess whether our system is meeting 21st Century education needs.

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.

Again, the truth of the matter is we haven't paid that much attention to high school accountability.

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.

We must revamp K-12 education law to ensure Washington does not stand in the way of meaningful reforms.

We do recognise the need to move towards the publication of information showing the progress made by pupils from one stage of their education to another.

With the enactment of the bipartisan No Child Left Behind Act, we have taken an important step toward achieving federal education policies that will allow students to learn and achieve at the highest possible level.

We really shouldn't be running education like a supermarket where you compare prices.