Dennis Archer Quotes

In my mind, there is no reason public school reform should be a partisan issue.

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

Listen, if the mayor wants to have a debate about education in this city, I got three words: bring it on.

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

There's no silver bullet when it comes to helping all children achieve. Great public schools are our best shot.

We should have better schools.

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

Our public education system does a great job. I don't think it's broken. We aren't interested in doing reform for reform's sake. I believe in public education; it did a great job for me. It deserves our support and encouragement.

There has been a growing consensus across the country - from statehouses to the White House and the halls of Congress - that we need to take dramatic steps to improve our secondary schools.

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.

We really shouldn't be running education like a supermarket where you compare prices.

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.

Competition has not worked in education because it has never really been tried.

When people lose faith in a system as they have in the public school system, they no longer want to support it.

Equal access to public education has been achieved. But what is the good of access to a failing school?

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.

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.

We are going to be working very hard on the inner cities having to do with education, having to do with crime. We're going to try and fix as quickly as possible.

I believe there ought to be school choice, so that parents can choose within the public school system.

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

Earlier today, Arnold Schwarzenegger criticized the California school system, calling it disastrous. Arnold says California's schools are so bad that its graduates are willing to vote for me.

And there should not be a limit on the creation of new public schools. We ought to expand choices for parents.

I am very proud of the quality of public education in Nebraska, but I believe we have an obligation to continually assess whether our system is meeting 21st Century education needs.

Many of those who argue for vouchers say that they simply want to use competition to improve public education. I don't think it works that way, and I've been watching this for a longtime.

The promise of education reform can never be fulfilled without adequate funding, and by shortchanging our schools, President Bush is breaking his promise to our children.