Rocky Carroll Quotes

When you introduce competition into the public school system, most studies show that schools start to do better when they are competing for students.

When people lose faith in a system as they have in the public school system, they no longer want to support it.

Education is largely run at the state level.

The vast majority of students in this country will continue to attend public schools.

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'm not sure Betsy DeVos has ever spent a day in a public school. And I don't - I'm pretty sure Donald Trump hasn't.

Earlier today, Arnold Schwarzenegger criticized the California school system, calling it disastrous. Arnold says California's schools are so bad that its graduates are willing to vote for me.

I'm a very big public school advocate.

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

Grammar schools are public schools without the sodomy.

America needs education reform on all levels to expand quality schools, build on past successes, and lower college debt.

We must revamp K-12 education law to ensure Washington does not stand in the way of meaningful reforms.

The key for all cities is whether you turn the public schools around.

The number one issue facing cities isn’t crimes or jobs anymore, it’s public education.

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

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.

It is possible to have a public education system that works.

We know that there will never be a great Newark unless there is a great public school system for our city.

We should have better schools.

If confirmed, I will be a strong advocate for great public schools.

An early attempt at education choice was charter schools. These were meant to attract the best and brightest students and provide them a level of education they often could not find in their local school districts. The problem is that, of the thousands of charter schools, many are outright failures.

Public education is so important - resisting privatization and charterization, high-stakes testing, and defunding. It's important for New York, but it's also important for the country.

The role of the federal government, if any, is to create more school choice.

The White House, in advancing the agenda for a [school] "choice" plan, rests its faith on market mechanisms. What reason have the black and very poor to lend their credence to a market system that has proved so obdurate and so resistant to their pleas at every turn?

Everyone goes to rotten schools when they're kids, don't they?