Marco Rubio Quotes

I always enjoyed the kids, but I didn't enjoy the bureaucracy of the educational system.

As a school board member, I might have particular views about the ways we might increase the economics curriculum in a local high school, but I'm not sure I should mandate that for the entire country.

At the federal level, we must help, not hinder, local school boards, parents, teachers and administrators as they make decisions about educating our children.

I do support high standards, strong accountability, and local control.

I think charter schools, choice, and frankly school standards need a champion.

I have made education a top priority of this Administration because when we get it right, when every child learns, America will be a more hopeful place.

I'm certainly very conservative when it comes to education. We're getting rid of Common Core. We're going to have education at a local level.

For decades, the public school system failed too many children, so we passed the No Child Left Behind Act and demanded schools show results in return for money.

We're going to end Common Core. Going to bring our education local.

Under the United States Constitution, the federal government has no authority to hold states "accountable" for their education performance...In the free society envisioned by the founders, schools are held accountable to parents, not federal bureaucrats.

The No Child Left Behind Program was an incentive to the schools to get their kids up to snuff on math and science and reading.

I believe in local control of education.

But the best thing Washington can do for education is realize that our role is limited. Washington must keep its promises, but let those who know our childrens' names- parents, teachers and school board members- make education decisions.

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

Children, although for the most part under the unwritten discipline of home, are not to be regarded as outside the control of public regulation. For the education of children is a matter of more than private interest; it concerns the State, which indeed regards the right training of the young as, in certain aspects, within its proper sphere. I would wish to see this responsibility extended.

The [teachers’] unions and the [school] districts have very different stakes in local control. The districts want the money and the programs that higher level governments can provide, but they also want autonomy in determining how resources are allocated. The unions are much less wedded to local autonomy. Indeed, much of their lobbying at the state level is to limit the autonomy of the districts.

You know there's a problem [with the education system] when you realize that out of the three R’s, only one begins with an R.

The Washington-knows-best approach has repeatedly failed the very children it proposes to help. It's time to roll back Common Core and return education to the people who it matters most to - children, parents, and teachers.

Classrooms cannot and should not be coerced into adopting federal academic standards. That's not just my belief; it's federal law.

I don't want Washington - let me be perfectly clear - I do not want Washington involved in local education decisions any more than I want them involved in common core. You know, common core was a state-created and state-implemented voluntary set of standards in Math and English that are comparable across state lines.

Beginning with the No Child Left Behind law and continuing today with Race to the Top, the federal emphasis on standardized assessments has become so excessive that it has modified state and district behavior in troubling ways.

Countries like Japan do not have to change their cultures to address their educational shortcomings; they simply have to adjust their policies and practices.

When it comes to education, no solution, not even ones we like, should be dictated or run from Washington, D.C.

As Governor of Texas, I have set high standards for our public schools, and I have met those standards.

Liberals will not let you improve the schools or the educational opportunities for poor people, because they want to maintain their teachers union status quo.