Jeb Bush Quotes

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

Louisiana standards and Louisiana tests for Louisiana students.

The Washington-knows-best approach has repeatedly failed the very children it proposes to help. It's time to roll back Common Core and return education to the people who it matters most to - children, parents, and teachers.

I want to get rid of Common Core.

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.

You have got to have two things in education reform. You have got to have some flexibility, so people can figure out what to do. But you also have to have accountable, basically what the Common Core standards were, some sort of set of national standards, so we can measure.

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.

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.

I believe in local control of education.

I looked at No Child Left Behind after it was enacted and saw what happened and saw the expansion of the federal government and the role of education. And I said, you know, that was - that's not what I believe in.

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

The fact is there are a lot of things happening at the federal level that are absolutely beyond the jurisdiction of the Constitution. This is power that should be shifted back to the states, whether it's the EPA - there is no role at the federal level for the Department of Education.

The Federal Government does not have a huge role in education and most parents like it that way.

Federal and State mandates don’t do anything for local schools other than to protect failure.

One thing I cannot understand - and people are probably going to be upset about this - is why local school boards have control over educational content.

Common Core is a big win for education.

Beginning with the No Child Left Behind law and continuing today with Race to the Top, the federal emphasis on standardized assessments has become so excessive that it has modified state and district behavior in troubling ways.

Local school districts should be free to adapt their academic programs in ways appropriate for their community, but we cannot allow mindless budget shortfalls to force wrongheaded changes to our children's education.

I trust Colorado families and teachers way more than I trust D.C. central planners who think they know better than parents do.

When it comes to education, no solution, not even ones we like, should be dictated or run from Washington, D.C.