Randi Weingarten Quotes

School choice is the civil rights issue of the 21st century.

Right-wingers don't want public education to succeed.

Public schools in the late '80s and early '90s were a total mess... we felt that if I was going to have a good educational option in my life, I would have to go to a public school district that actually served its children.

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.

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

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.

It's time to update traditional public schools, charter schools, home schools, online schools and parochial schools. Let the dollars follow the child instead of forcing the child to follow the dollars, so that every child has the opportunity to attain an education.

The problems of public schools will not be solved by cutting off the source of their funding, which is what vouchers are.

Much of the criticism centered around Betsy DeVos focuses on her lack of experience with public schools. While she has shown some interest in 'protecting' students from the non-existent threat of grizzlies wandering onto their campuses, she has never run, taught in, attended, or sent a child to a public school.

I've never believed the charter movement was exclusively for socially and economically disadvantaged kids.

The Department of Education should be disbanded and the resources either returned to the taxpayers or put into the schools.

I'm very, very focused on not only creating world class schools at scale, but changing the public policy in this country that every day prevents children from getting access to the American dream.

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 believe we need a national amendment which will guarantee every child in America the promise of not just an equal education but a high-quality equal education.

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

Looking ahead, I can see more and more instances where I will disagree with the president on very fundamental issues. The largest, for me, is 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.

I'm totally opposed to vouchers. I will fight them tooth and nail.

I would like to make it so that education was a right, and not a privilege.

President-elect Bush spoke in a forceful and candid manner that it is his passion that all children should have access to a first class education.

You look at public education system, charter schools, infrastructure, in so many ways New Orleans has come back stronger.

We have a law that allows us to establish charter schools here in this state. We ought to get going on it.

In the government schools, which are referred to as public schools, Indian policy has been instituted there, and its a policy where they do not encourage, in fact, discourage, critical thinking and the creation of ideas and public education.

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

I have no problems with private schools. I graduated from one and so did my mother. Private schools are useful and we often use public funds to pay for their infrastructures and other common needs.