Donna Shalala Quotes

We should have better schools.

I am very proud of the quality of public education in Nebraska, but I believe we have an obligation to continually assess whether our system is meeting 21st Century education needs.

We at the Department of Education are going to provide technical assistance; I've committed $14 million to show states how they might meet this more sophisticated approach.

The one thing we can do is invest in the quality of education, especially higher education.

The most important problem that Turkey has is education.

I'm clear that we do need to improve what's happening in our schools.

Education reform has as its main purpose to make sure that the education delivered is of quality.

We have to build a better education in this country. We need to step it up.

In the education debate, people are so passionate about their ideas that we often end up expending more energy shouting at each other than we do pushing for the fundamentals to success in all schools.

The most important domestic issue we face is education…and education is so broken.

I'm a little bit tired of people getting credit for improving education by doing the cheapest thing they can do, which is to call for the manipulation of test scores or to create new standards.

For many years we have spent a great deal of effort and money on school reform. Yet where are we today?

Common Core is a big win for education.

We used to have superb public schools. I guess we don't anymore, but, boy, the public schools were really something and I am a product of those in Indianapolis.

I never hear anything about education. Education - I guess it's just not sexy enough. And everybody claims to love their children and our children are the most important thing, but if that's the case, how come we never hear more about education as an election issue?

I think people don't talk enough about education and what we need to do in our public education system.

Education, in K-12, technical college and universities needs to be a top priority in Wisconsin.

And I think that's righteous, I think that's what parents want to know. They want to know what's going right in the school, and what needs improvement, and that's what this law does.

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 think we're doing a dreadful job of educating.

I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.

As Governor of North Carolina for two terms, I made improving education a top priority.

Ensuring quality higher education is one of the most important things we can do for future generations.

Before this government came to power, many failing schools were simply allowed to drift on in a pattern of continuing failure. The government is determined to break that pattern and is successfully doing so.

I don't think of myself as a policy expert. I think education is the most important thing.