Aaron Ciechanover Quotes

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

Like health care, education is something worth spending on and worth investing in, but we're spending more and getting less.

You cannot simply put more money into the same system and get better results, so we will need to reform and innovate in the delivery of education.

There is a growing acceptance and interest in publicly funded school choice as a catalyst for education reform in general and a way to empower parents to be education reformers.

Only a liberal senator from Massachusetts would say that a 49 percent increase in funding for education was not enough.

I am going to use every rostrum and every forum and every searchlight that I can to tell the people of the country and their elected representatives that we can no longer afford overcrowded classrooms and half-day sessions. We just must not, we just cannot afford the great waste that comes from the neglect of a single child.

Everyone runs on an education platform. We have Education Presidents and Education Governors and Education Dog Catchers, but the dollars never match the rhetoric.

You can’t reform education without spending some money.

Any nation wishing to promote national education could not expect to achieve its aims until it took it control of education in its own hands

It's not how much you spend, it's how you spend it. We have been putting a lot of money into education in the state of Nevada, and it's gotten us to 50th in the country in graduation rates. We needed more accountability in our system.

It is not right to play politics with education.

Way back last summer I asked some of the most outstanding educational minds in this Nation to tackle this problem. I gave them a single instruction: find out how we can best invest each education dollar so that it will do the most good. Your support and the support of every leading education group proves that they did their job better than I had hoped, because for the first time we have succeeded in finding goals which unite us rather than divide us.

Latinos care about education, yes, so we need reform, not just money.

In Barack Obama, we have a great education president who is rebuilding America. His Race to the Top program is doing more to 'spur us' to improve our public schools than anything we've ever done as a nation.

The amount of money we spend on education is important, but not nearly as important as how the money is spent.

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.

The last thing that should happen is funding cut for education; it should be increased. We need to put more money towards education, and anything else is abusive.

I pledge to you today that as president, in my first budget, I will introduce the largest increase in special education ever.

I'm not one of those who thinks the only way to fix what's wrong with American education is to throw more money at it. We also need to do it much better.

The unions no longer control the education agenda of the Democratic Party.

This is not a skill problem, this is a will problem. Does America have the will to make education a priority? We know the things that work. Why don't we scale up those things that do work.

I believe the government should ensure all children are provided with a good education.

I looked at No Child Left Behind after it was enacted and saw what happened and saw the expansion of the federal government and the role of education. And I said, you know, that was - that's not what I believe in.

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.

Texas deserves a leader who understands that making education a priority creates good jobs for Texans and keeps Texas on top.