Education Cuts Quotes

Texas Republican political leaders take perverse pride in how deeply they have cut our state's education budget. Thousands of teachers have been pulled from classrooms, schools have closed and valuable programs have been canceled. In many places, districts are forced to choose between prekindergarten programs and English, algebra and art.

And, cuts in education, scientific research and the rest are harmful, and they are what are affected by the sequestration.

We are cutting things kids like-music, art, and gym classes; stuff that kept me in school. This country can't survive without you kids. It's all about you kids.

When budget cuts happen - which has been happening a lot in this country - after-school athletics and after-school music are some of the first things to go.

I've benefited enormously from an arts education and a music education in New York. When they cut the programs for funding, I was devastated.

Too many schools across the country have cut back heavily on their music curricula.

At the start of the second decade of the 21st century, young people all over the world are demonstrating against a variety of issues ranging from economic injustice and massive inequality to drastic cuts in education and public services. These demonstrations have and currently are being met with state-sanctioned violence and an almost pathological refusal to hear their demands.

Programs that bring the arts to young kids are always the first to be cut. It's mind-boggling to me.

The education cuts in the President's budget are both irresponsible and morally unjustifiable.

They're taking away the arts programmes in the schools, and that's a terrible thing.

For me, closing libraries is the equivalent of eating your seed corn to save a little money.

Whenever education budgets get tightened, art programs are the first to get cut. Like the enduring popularity of reality TV, this never ceases to amaze me.

Connecticut would not be Connecticut if we cut $3.5 billion out of the budget. We are a strong, generous, hopeful people. We'd be taking $800 million out of education. You can't do that in this state.

Taking the arts out of schools is a terrible mistake.

I'd like to do something for inner-city schools and education for young people because it's constantly being cut.

You begin to see that all of these things are connected: The kind of cuts that mean less environmental protection are also the kind of cuts that mean less musical education for the schools and that also mean more overcrowded schools.

Unfortunately, the music programs are being stripped out of the schools these days. We have to change that.

It's amazing to me that they're cutting physical education programs in the school systems.

Many schools today are sacrificing social studies, the arts and physical education so children can cover basic subjects like math, English and science.

But it is equally necessary to consider the implications for a society if there are fewer and fewer young people making music because we are economising on music schools or musical education in schools.

Schools, the first thing they cut is music programs. They don't realize how important music is to kids.