Priscilla Chan Quotes

I was on the board of Teach for America. And we transformed a failed public school system in the City of New Orleans, probably the most corrupted and failed system in the country.

Teach For America is working hard to be one significant source of the leadership we need.

A core part of Teach For America's mission has always been affecting positive change in the traditional public school system.

The greatest obstacle to those who hope to reform American education is complacency.

Teach For America provides one of the most critical pipelines for bringing new talent into public education.

Teach For America was built on the idea that our best hope of reaching 'One Day' is to have thousands of alumni use their diverse experiences and ideas to effect change from inside and outside the education system.

I think the way to understand Teach for America is as a leadership development program.

That's why I created the New America School - to fill the cracks in our public education system.

What we need is an education system that works for every child, not a select few. This starts with providing a quality education for our youngest Americans so they can learn, grow, and become prosperous citizens.

We need to focus on helping EVERY child to get a world-class education in EVERY school in this country.

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

Latinos care about education, yes, so we need reform, not just money.

I believe we need a national amendment which will guarantee every child in America the promise of not just an equal education but a high-quality equal education.

Even on education, his one accomplishment, the Leave No Child Behind Act, and he has left it unfunded.

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

Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

The Time to Succeed Coalition brings together an unprecedented group of leaders from education and business, communities and academia to say that it is time to strike the shackles of an outdated school calendar from our disadvantaged schools.

All you've got to do is go back and look in the early 1900s and see what we had in Texas without public education and realize what it has done for the state.

For six and a half years, I had responsibility for leading the Labour party policy on education and delivering on our promise of improved opportunities for all our children.

I started Knewton to do my bit to fix the world's education system.

Education is among the most important problems we face because it's the ultimate 'gateway' problem. That is, it drives virtually every global problem that we face as a species. But there's a flip-side: if we can fix education, then we'll dramatically improve the other problems, too.

My husband was working as principal of an urban transformation high school - the kind of public charter school determined to do whatever it takes to give its mostly minority, low-income student body the education they need and deserve to be successful in life.

If we get public education right, everything else will follow. But if we get it wrong, not much else will matter.

America's public schools have served their purpose. Free and compulsory education was good for a somewhat unpromising young nation.

We cannot, as a country, improve economically, socially, and culturally without quality education.