Jalen Rose Quotes

One of my main legislative efforts in education is to help expand and replicate successful charter schools. Charter schools are public schools with site-based governance.

I believe public education is the new civil rights battle and I support charter schools.

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.

School choice is the civil rights issue of the 21st century.

There is a growing acceptance and interest in publicly funded school choice as a catalyst for education reform in general and a way to empower parents to be education reformers.

I just have a position that any child that's in a failing school should be able to get out, or be in a position to have that school fixed.

In terms of other functions, we are making a mistake about insisting on a public school monopoly.

Public schools in the late '80s and early '90s were a total mess... we felt that if I was going to have a good educational option in my life, I would have to go to a public school district that actually served its children.

Education is largely run at the state level.

The vast majority of students in this country will continue to attend public schools.

An early attempt at education choice was charter schools. These were meant to attract the best and brightest students and provide them a level of education they often could not find in their local school districts. The problem is that, of the thousands of charter schools, many are outright failures.

As the son of a union activist and a lifelong Democrat, I've always thought that privatizing our public schools is not the answer. We must strengthen public schools.

Our public education system does a great job. I don't think it's broken. We aren't interested in doing reform for reform's sake. I believe in public education; it did a great job for me. It deserves our support and encouragement.

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

The difference between the denominational system and the public school system is all the difference between bolstering them up on the one hand and letting them alone of the other.

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.

Arizona is a national leader in school choice with both charter schools and tuition tax credits giving parents and their children more school choices than ever before.

About half my work in education is U.S. political reform around school districts and charter schools, and creating more room for entrepreneurial organizations to develop. And about half on technology, which I look at as a global platform.

But then it hasn't really been a focus of our government to make us an educated people.

The education of a nation instead of being confined to a few schools and universities for the instruction of the few, must become the national care and expense for the formation of the many.

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.

I'm not knocking private schools, but I owe it to my kids to let them grow up in a place where private school isn't required. They're only in school 6-8 hours a day; they have to live in their neighborhood 24 hours a day. I didn't want them growing up in a place where anybody with the means had abandoned their public schools.

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.