Randi Weingarten Quotes

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

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

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.

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

We should make sure that every student has at least one alternative—and preferably several—to her neighborhood school.

I grew up in the public schools, my mom taught in them, and then my daughter is in them.

One of my main legislative efforts in education is to help expand and replicate successful charter schools. Charter schools are public schools with site-based governance.

If confirmed, I will be a strong advocate for great public schools.

Charter schools are not a panacea.

As the son of a union activist and a lifelong Democrat, I've always thought that privatizing our public schools is not the answer. We must strengthen public schools.

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

I'm a very big public school advocate.

When I was mayor of New York, my views changed. I began as mayor of New York City thinking that I could reform the New York City school system. After two or three years, four years, I became an advocate of choice, of scholarships, and vouchers, and parental choice, because I thought that was the only way to really change the school system.

Albuquerque is my home. I want my kids and all of our children to be able to go to any public or charter school and receive an excellent education.

Arizona is a national leader in school choice with both charter schools and tuition tax credits giving parents and their children more school choices than ever before.

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.

Nor, in our own country, must we fail to take notice of the establishment of School Boards.

The best schools in Arizona are charter schools. The worst schools in Arizona are charter schools.

These day schools did invaluable service in the days of the Colony and Commonwealth, and, indeed, in the early days of the Republic; but to their continuation must undoubtedly be ascribed the tardy recognition of the government and people of the fact that no agency for the education of the masses is as effective as the public school.... There is not one public school building owned by the government or by any city or township.

I am increasingly ready to junk the public school system.

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

While the public school rewards failure by throwing more government money at failing school systems, the voucher system does the opposite.

Schools should be open. If it's a public education, and the school in your district is poor-performing, you should be able to put your student or kid wherever you want.

The push to defund public schools and reroute taxpayer money to charters and private institutions is actually a very clever strategy by the Right Wing, which has always had a great deal of disdain for a system that forces them to pay taxes toward some other kid's non-religious, science-based education.

Charter schools in particular have proven a lifeline for millions of children stuck in chronically failing schools.