Donald Trump Quotes

The number one issue facing cities isn’t crimes or jobs anymore, it’s public education.

Being here in Detroit, our public education in this city is - it's shocking. And the oversight of it and the oversight of the teachers and the funding is nonexistent, and the priority that's put on it is so low.

I am going to provide school choice and put an end to common core and bring our education local.

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

Obviously, this whole 'no child left behind' idea is more rhetoric than actual practice.

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

I am increasingly ready to junk the public school system.

Get rid of Betsy DeVos.

Michael Gove was one of the worst things to ever happen to the education system in this country. David Cameron is the worst Prime Minister this country has ever had.

In the US, the problem is primary and secondary education. We've had such an increase in inequality because a quarter of American kids don't finish high school!

We hear talk now about reforming public education. There are billions of dollars at stake for such a reform. But I have not heard Arne Duncan, who is the U.S. Education Secretary, mention once the civic illiteracy in the country.

My gut reaction [on Betsy DeVos] was, oh, my God. We are now back into the education wars.

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.

Betsy DeVos is not the most informed person on education policy, but I have seen her present a few times, and she presents as a pretty respectable, intelligent person who has cared passionately about education and cares about charter schools.

The private schools and the independent schools like Oprah's are really doing well because they've got the best of everything but it certainly puts the spotlight on a system of public education that is still reeling from the apartheid years [in South Africa].

I am not a patient person. My friends and colleagues will confirm this. But, frankly, we should all feel a little more impatient with the state of public education in America today.

Common Core has been eliminated in New Jersey.

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

I think it's a scandal what has been happening in the school system so far as lower income classes. The dropout rates, the illiteracy rate, you know literacy in the United States was a lot higher in 1890 than it is now.

Millennials are not deeply familiar with school choice, and have some reservations, especially about the types of institutions that a student might choose to attend with taxpayer dollars.

Only Labour will provide the radical changes needed to create a free, fair and funded education system, which protects education as a right for the many, not a privilege for the few.

I think Common Core is a disaster. That doesn't mean there can't be a little tentacle left of the Department of Education, like 5 percent, just in terms of local coordination, perhaps.

Public education is so important - resisting privatization and charterization, high-stakes testing, and defunding. It's important for New York, but it's also important for the country.

I think charter schools, choice, and frankly school standards need a champion.

In the U.S., we believe the best way to improve lives is to improve public education.