Chris Gabrieli Quotes

And, in the case of schools, or anything else, if you have something that is forcing you to do better than you did the day before, it makes you look forward and it makes you think in a way that's going to make the product better, which is the students and the education.

Indeed, while so much in education reform can divide activists into warring camps, expanding learning time unites reformers around a shared vision of bringing excellence and breadth to our nation's most impoverished and struggling schools.

We live in Palo Alto, which has, fortunately, one of the greatest school districts in the country.

In the education debate, people are so passionate about their ideas that we often end up expending more energy shouting at each other than we do pushing for the fundamentals to success in all schools.

We know that there will never be a great Newark unless there is a great public school system for our city.

We should have better schools.

Public education must be viewed from the lens of providing each child with the learning environment that best meets his or her needs. If we can send a low-income child to a parochial school, knowing that his odds of attending college will increase as a result, then that should be our mission.

'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.

We need to end the government monopoly in education by transferring power from bureaucracies and unions to families. The era of defining public education as allegiance to centralized school districts must end.

Instead of unfairly demonizing teachers, we should be working with them to find solutions to the problems in our schools and make sure every child gets an outstanding public education.

But the best thing Washington can do for education is realize that our role is limited. Washington must keep its promises, but let those who know our childrens' names- parents, teachers and school board members- make education decisions.

All I suggest is to make K-12 like higher education. Higher education in the United States is the best in the world because these institutions compete with each other for your tuition dollar. Let's just bring competition to public education.

Once I started the first school, I realized this is what my life is meant to be, is to promote education and help kids go to school, and that's very clear.

Title I dollars are well spent. They are really making a difference in the education of students.

We at the Department of Education are going to provide technical assistance; I've committed $14 million to show states how they might meet this more sophisticated approach.

The people of Missouri said they expect their elected leaders to support public schools because they know that education is the best economic development tool there is.

As a former teacher and a mother and grandmother, I know firsthand the importance of a quality education.

Parents like options when it comes to their children's education. And they respond to quality.

The key for all cities is whether you turn the public schools around.

There is no neutral aid when that aid principally flows to religious institutions nor is there truly “private choice” when the available choices resulting from the program are predominantly religious.

Most governors know more about education than other elected officials because education is our major job.

The point we must aim at is to obtain admittance for our children to the nearest and the best schoolhouse.

Great Schools. Great Texas

More than anything, we must do better for our children's education.

I really think the single most important thing to remember about trying to fix the schools is that there is no such thing as an instant result.