Fabrizio Moreira Quotes

The problems of public schools will not be solved by cutting off the source of their funding, which is what vouchers are.

I am increasingly ready to junk the public school system.

We're not proposing any shifting of funding from public schools to private schools.

I believe there ought to be school choice, so that parents can choose within the public school system.

The abolition of the separate school system in the south raises serious practical problems.... We face the abolition of the public school system. Boldness is essential but wisdom is indispensable.

Charter schools are not a panacea.

As the son of a union activist and a lifelong Democrat, I've always thought that privatizing our public schools is not the answer. We must strengthen public schools.

Federal and State mandates don’t do anything for local schools other than to protect failure.

These day schools did invaluable service in the days of the Colony and Commonwealth, and, indeed, in the early days of the Republic; but to their continuation must undoubtedly be ascribed the tardy recognition of the government and people of the fact that no agency for the education of the masses is as effective as the public school.... There is not one public school building owned by the government or by any city or township.

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.

To me, it looks like an opportunity for school choice. I'd also like to see a pilot program to allow true school choice ? vouchers.

Second, when comparing private school and public school test scores, it's like apples and oranges. Public schools have to take everyone, but private schools can be selective. It's not accurate or fair to compare the job they do.

If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.

The difference between the denominational system and the public school system is all the difference between bolstering them up on the one hand and letting them alone of the other.

While NCLB drove important progress on transparency and data disaggregation, I think it's clear that the status quo in public education is not working for our kids or our country.

I'll continue to fight for school choice and home schooling. Do I believe in accountability? You bet I do.

I'm totally opposed to vouchers. I will fight them tooth and nail.

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

The people of Missouri said they expect their elected leaders to support public schools because they know that education is the best economic development tool there is.

Low standards are a tactic that takes pressure off teachers' unions by accepting mediocrity and failure for kids.

Enacted under President George W. Bush's administration with the promise to focus on individual student achievement and overall school performance, No Child Left Behind was heralded as groundbreaking. And in some ways, it was.

In terms of other functions, we are making a mistake about insisting on a public school monopoly.

We really shouldn't be running education like a supermarket where you compare prices.

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

The folks who run the poverty industry in this town are worried that kids will get a better education at schools that cost half the amount they spend on the public schools. In their shoes, I'd be worried too.