Mitt Romney Quotes

It's hard for parents just to measure schools.

Yes, I believe in school choice. Parents know far better than government bureaucrats what their children need from an education standpoint, and they should be permitted to make that choice.

We class schools into four grades: leading school, first-rate school, good school and school.

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

I have seen no primary schools worthy to be compared, even now, with those of Holland.

Good schools should be left alone.

Charter schools were supposed to compete with public schools, and in turn, that competition was meant to improve education. But that wasn't the end result.

An early attempt at education choice was charter schools. These were meant to attract the best and brightest students and provide them a level of education they often could not find in their local school districts. The problem is that, of the thousands of charter schools, many are outright failures.

We must revamp K-12 education law to ensure Washington does not stand in the way of meaningful reforms.

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

I made a different decision to send my children to the local state school.

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

I don’t know any parent who wants to send his children to a below average school.

Schools should be held accountable for results.

[Characterizing public schools:] godless monstrosities ... values-indoctrination centers ... a multi-billion dollar inculcation machine.

The Federal Government does not have a huge role in education and most parents like it that way.

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

It is possible to have a public education system that works.

Education is largely run at the state level.

The problem with public school is not overcrowding in the classroom. The problem is not teacher unions. The problem is not underfunding or lack of computer equipment. The problem is your damn kids.

You wouldn't go to a hospital, you wouldn't go to a law firm where the doctors and lawyers were not retained on merit: where they all had tenure regardless of competence. Parents feel the same way about schools that they send their children to.

Comprehensive schools, as too few understand, have never been designed to improve education.

School grades can help determine how well a principal or school leader is doing, and yeah, you need to have some way to evaluate schools.

No family should feel they need to leave San Francisco to find a great public education.

I do believe ultimately the role is of our state government to ensure every child in this state has a great public school education.