Stacey Abrams Quotes

We don’t get the quality of people going into teaching that other nations do…. When people go teacher bashing, they are making the problem worse.

We've done a terrible job of hiring, supporting, and retaining the people tasked with the difficult responsibility of teaching our children.

As a former teacher, it pains me to watch such an essential and rewarding profession suffer due to government neglect.

In many ways, education is a lousy business. Teachers are not normal economic actors; almost all of them work for less money than they might fetch in some other industry, given their skills and advanced degrees.

There is no education system in the world - none at all - that's better than its average teacher.

If teaching isn't rewarding and challenging, we're going to continue to lose our best teachers to work in other fields.

To get enough of the teachers we need, teaching has to be a great job where talented people are supported and rewarded.

The biggest barrier we've seen to student progress is this: School policies and practices often prevent good teachers from doing great work and even dissuade some talented Americans from entering the profession. This needs to change.

I am deeply concerned with the diminution of the teaching strength of the country as a result of the disproportionately low salaries that are paid to teachers throughout the country.

… while they're adding teachers in places like South Korea, we're laying them off in droves. It's unfair to our kids. It undermines their future and ours. And it has to stop. Pass this bill, and put our teachers back in the classroom where they belong.

If we want to recruit and retain high-quality teachers, it starts with a fair wage, adequate working conditions, and the resources and support to succeed. Remember: teachers' working conditions are students' learning conditions.

Whenever there are changes to school budgets, we know teachers feel it first.

We definitely have to take care of our teachers more. Raise the pay. Give them the tools they need.

By continuing to increase teacher recruitment and training - and ameliorating wages and working conditions - we will be able to shore up the weaknesses of the French education system.

Ensuring all kids have access to an effective, talented teacher needs to be a national priority.

I do recognise that, where recruitment difficulties persist, teachers can be put under great pressure.

We need to reward the 'thankless job' of substitute teaching with better pay and chances for permanent positions. I look forward to the day when no student comes home saying, 'I didn't learn much today... we had a sub.'

Our teachers at the public school level are the most underpaid for the importance of their job in America.

We can not wait until we have enough trained people willing to work at a teacher's salary and under conditions imposed upon teachers in order to improve what happens in the classroom.

Given the professionalism of Michigan teachers, I think they're not teaching because of the financial rewards.

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

It is vital that teachers can be paid more without having to leave the classroom. This will be particularly important to schools in the most disadvantaged areas as it will empower them to attract and recruit the best teachers.

Teachers make a difference, and we would serve our students better by focusing on attracting and retaining the quality teachers by raising teacher pay.

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

More than half of my former students teach - elementary and high school, community college and university. I taught them to be passionate about literature and writing, and to attempt to translate that passion to their own students. They are rookie teachers, most likely to be laid off and not rehired, even though they are passionate.