Kaya Henderson Quotes

I'll continue to fight for our schools.

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.

It is the local community that needs to own the commitment to education.

Real Texans want their kids to have the best education possible, not the one politicians looking to brag about budget cuts have left us with.

How can you contribute towards building the Indian society and the Indian nation? No better way than to upgrade the quality of young people in school, particularly the schools which are run by the state government in the villages.

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.

If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.

Good schools underpin not only our economy, but the social fabric of our lives.

Also, if we take back our schools and concentrate on improving them so our children get a better education, they will be better trained to compete for a job locally.

I'm clear that we do need to improve what's happening in our schools.

Education should be one of our top funding priorities; talking about it does not help the teachers and students who desperately need promises fulfilled.

I am convinced that your Mayor must take the leadership role in education too.

I have said it on several occasions, several times from this podium, that providing a quality education for our children is high on my priority list. I will not stop now.

It's not easy for the average family to ensure that their child receives a quality education. And the federal government is not making it any easier.

I am going to use every rostrum and every forum and every searchlight that I can to tell the people of the country and their elected representatives that we can no longer afford overcrowded classrooms and half-day sessions. We just must not, we just cannot afford the great waste that comes from the neglect of a single child.

For many years we have spent a great deal of effort and money on school reform. Yet where are we today?

Great Schools. Great Texas

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

If people are persuaded of the need for education and the need to invest in education, they're also persuaded of the need not to waste that investment by having low-quality education but to have high-quality education.

Local school districts should be free to adapt their academic programs in ways appropriate for their community, but we cannot allow mindless budget shortfalls to force wrongheaded changes to our children's education.

Every child should be given a strong start to their education.

We owe every student in every neighborhood in New Jersey an equal opportunity to succeed. We know that more money, alone, is not the answer. We need to redefine success, and how we pursue that success, by the outcomes obtained by students.

The No Child Left Behind Program was an incentive to the schools to get their kids up to snuff on math and science and reading.

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.

When you put more than a million kids in school, you take a plane today and go to Haiti, you cannot see the results. You will see the results in 30 years when you see a different type of Haitian.