I have long been an advocate of school choice, but I also believe the problem lies with school administrators and union leaders who refuse to believe there is such a thing as a bad school.
I ran for ninth grade class president. Came in a close second.
Support charters; insist on change for failing schools.
90 percent of American schoolchildren are in public schools. And the emphasis on private schools and charter schools and parochial schools is not unimportant.
Like millions of parents, I chose to send my children to a religious school that shares my belief system, which is central to my life. I objected to changes in the school that, in my opinion, did not reflect that belief system.
I was on the board at my children's school in Phoenix: I was Mr. Daddy Daycare.
We've got to protect the nursery schools. I'm chair of governors in a nursery school in my area. If we lost the provision, I'd be worried about the socialising skills of children.
Our public schools began as ministries of the church; now it is time to return them to the Lord.
The fundamentalists are taking over school boards and making curriculum choices for our young people.
I mentioned charter schools, and experimenting with our school system, to make it work. I think that's something we really have to pay attention to.
Young people are being elected for School Boards all over the country.
I don't want the values of others being imposed on my children in my school, and I don't think that should be happening in a public school or a private school.
The foundations demand that public schools and teachers be held accountable for performance, but they themselves are accountable to no one. If their plans fail, no sanctions are levied against them. They are bastions of unaccountability.
We have to have a school board that's actually gonna be able to function and that has true parent representatives on it.
You can have great teachers, but if you don't have a good principal, you won't have a good school.
I think charter schools, choice, and frankly school standards need a champion.
I believe government should be loyal to parents, teachers and children.
Of all states that understands local control of schools, Iowa is such a state.
I do support high standards, strong accountability, and local control.
We do need curriculum reform. And it should happen at the state and local level. That is where educational policy belongs, because if a parent is unhappy with what their child is being taught in school, they can go to that local school board or their state legislature, or their governor and get it changed.
Superintendents are ultimately fired or driven to distraction by school boards, which do a wonderful job of representing all the conflicts and confusions that exist in their communities.
Under the United States Constitution, the federal government has no authority to hold states "accountable" for their education performance...In the free society envisioned by the founders, schools are held accountable to parents, not federal bureaucrats.
There is no accountability in the public school system - except for coaches. You know what happens to a losing coach. You fire him. A losing teacher can go on losing for 30 years and then go to glory.
Through the post-war era, including the teachers’ union movement, the authority of the principal has in fact been reduced to a shell.
The Washington-knows-best approach has repeatedly failed the very children it proposes to help. It's time to roll back Common Core and return education to the people who it matters most to - children, parents, and teachers.
