Jacky Rosen Quotes

We need good reading programs, and we need equity in schools.

In Congress, I will fight for an education system that bridges the opportunity gap in order to help close the achievement gap, and prioritize models that sustain and enrich whole people and communities.

History should belong to all of us, and it needs to include people from different cultural backgrounds. Otherwise, it risks becoming irrelevant to children, who could then become disenchanted with education.

Every Canadian who wants to learn should have the opportunity to do so.

The only way to ensure that our promise to provide every opportunity for students with disabilities, and help them achieve their full potential, is to give our schools the dollars they need.

My understanding is that Kansas, Massachusetts, they've been more pioneers on the special education side.

Inclusive, good-quality education is a foundation for dynamic and equitable societies.

The prisons are open all day long. I think the schools should be too.

More than any other institution in American life, the public schools have broken down the barriers of class, race, religion, gender, ethnicity, language and disability status that separate people.

We must work towards solutions that make housing, transportation, the workforce, and higher education more equitable.

From what we understand about participation by women and minorities, we need to do a better job of exposing people early in their careers to STEM fields.

We want to teach girls of color the skills they need and create a diversity of voices into the tech community.

We've got to have good schools in every zip code.

I learned early on about the real meaning of equity and inclusion, and that when those guiding principles are not met, they can have devastating effects on individuals, families, and communities.

Diversity matters. You want your city departments to look like the city.

Education is and will be the most powerful tool for individual and social change, and we must do all that it takes to facilitate it.

Diversity has definitely been increasing, but still we have the issue of inclusion, and that is why I am so grateful about playing the role of Nagini in the 'Fantastic Beasts' franchise.

I knew a lot of black scientists, engineers, and mathematicians, and female mathematicians and engineers, women of all backgrounds. So this idea that anyone could be an engineer, a mathematician, or whatever, was something that I had grown up with and thought was really normal.

We must provide an improved early education system so that all students have the opportunity to learn and reach their full potential.

It's going very different for citizens of Chicago to know that they have an advocate in the mayor's office - getting rid of the 'us versus them,' the lack of investment in our neighborhoods, the feeling that the only thing that matters is if you're a campaign donor.

I can't believe that I'm sitting in meetings with Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks, and Annette Bening. I want to take on that responsibility to represent all the Rogers out there who don't have a seat at the table. People of colour were not at the table, and now I am there, I want to change things.

I feel like if Hollywood can stretch for inclusion and intersectionality, and being intentional with its intersectionality, that that can ripple out past Hollywood into whatever industry and kind of affect society as a whole.

If you exclude a group of people from the boardroom or the leadership ranks of a company, the company is not as good as it could be.

I'm seeing more and more people of color do what I do as showrunners, and that's so great. I would love to get to the point where we don't have to talk about it anymore.

We decided a number of years ago we could do a better job at diversity. It was going to be one of the growth areas available to us. There are a variety of initiatives to create more awareness with African-Americans and Hispanics and anyone else.