Michael Enzi Quotes

High school dropout rates nationally - Not enough is being done on this issue.

I dropped out of school.

And yet 50 percent of the kids who start high school in the United States today do not finish high school.

While I do commend the Administration on its commitment and focus on high school reform, I believe that we must focus on graduation as the key accountability measure.

By 2018, an estimated 63 percent of all new U.S. jobs will require workers with an education beyond high school. For our young people to get those jobs, they first need to graduate from high school ready to start a postsecondary education.

Currently, only 70 percent of our high school students earn diplomas with their peers, and less than one-third of our high school students graduate prepared for success in a four-year college.

When nearly a third of our high school students do not graduate on time with their peers, we have work to do. We must design our middle and high schools so that no student gets lost in the crowd and disconnected from his or her own potential.

I did drop out of school.

The government sets targets for increased four-year high school graduation rates as part of its agenda for improving Americans' health.

No Child Left Behind's fourth-grade gains aren't learning gains, they're testing gains. That's why they don't last. The law is a distraction from things that really count.

The only thing that everyone needs to look out for is keeping the students reading through high school and thereafter.

There's a high school in Camden, New Jersey, I call the Jill Scott School. It's the Camden Creative Arts High School. Those teachers and kids are so passionate about what they do, and 98 percent of the senior class went on to college.

Policymakers can draw much from 'The Need for Roots': such clear prescriptions as that employers ought to provide an adequate vocational training for their employees, education should be compulsory and publicly funded, and include technical as well as elementary education.

I dropped out of high school. I really had no interest in doing any school work whatsoever.

Early college high schools in North Carolina and across the country show us that challenge - not remediation - is an approach to education that works.

Our goal here in New York is to ensure that every child who graduates high school is ready to start a career or start college and to dramatically increase the number of students that graduate from college.

I never went to college - I barely got out of high school.

I got my GED my senior year and ended up taking community college classes before I transferred to Bard.

A boy or girl who has gone through the eight grades should possess a complete, practical education and should have received special training in some specific line of work, fitting him or her to earn a livelihood.

While Obama might not push college education exclusively, like most Democrats he does oversell it and does shortchange the alternatives. And millions of young Americans pay the price.

All students should have the opportunity to receive their high school diplomas and be fully prepared for college or the workplace.

Our record number of teenagers must become our record number of high school and college graduates and our record number of teachers, scientists, doctors, lawyers, and skilled professionals.

I was honestly never a huge school person.

School's not for everyone, but I'm not telling people to leave school.

With nearly all students leaving public high school having taken some vocational education, this bill continues to provide communities with the funding necessary to give students an edge on career training.