School Choice Quotes

• The idea of school choice is spreading like wildfire around the country, because it's the one education reform that puts real choices and real opportunities in the hands of families who desperately need them.

  Clint Bolick

  Country, Real, School

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• Yes, I believe in school choice. Parents know far better than government bureaucrats what their children need from an education standpoint, and they should be permitted to make that choice.

  Matt Salmon

  Children, Believe, School

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• Those on the left who scream about income gaps choose to focus on the success of those at the top rather than the failures of those at the bottom. They conveniently ignore that liberals are the ones who have pushed the moral relativisim and welfare-state dependence that has destroyed black families over the last 60 years. And it is these same liberals who fight to keep low-income kids in failing public schools and fight efforts to get school choice.

  Star Parker

  School, Kids, Fighting

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• School choice opponents are also dishonest when they speak of saving public schools. A Heritage Foundation survey found that 47 percent of House members and 51 percent of senators with school-age children enrolled them in private schools in 2001. Public school teachers enroll their children in private schools to a much greater extent than the general public, in some cities close to 50 percent.

  Walter E. Williams

  Teacher, Children, School

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

  Jeb Bush

  School, Government, Choices

  "Jeb Bush survives" by Jonathan Topaz, www.politico.com. February 27, 2015.

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• Under [Betsy DeVos] leadership, we can deliver a world-class education and school choice to all families.

  Donald Trump

  School, Class, Choices

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I'm proposing a plan to provide school choice to every disadvantaged student in America.

  Donald Trump

  School, America, Choices

  Source: www.pbs.org

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

  Charlie Crist

  Believe, School, Home

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• I am going to provide school choice and put an end to common core and bring our education local.

  Donald Trump

  School, Choices, Common

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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

  William H. Gray III

  Believe, School, Choices

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• The new program for children in failing schools will be the largest statewide school choice program in the nation. The creation of that program plus the expansion of two others illustrates that states with the greatest experience with school choice are the most likely to expand it.

  Clint Bolick

  Children, School, Two

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• School choice is one of the strongest ways we have to educate our children, .. believes in school choice and he is going to work hard to enact school choice.

  Ari Fleischer

  Children, Believe, Hard Work

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• I think charter schools, choice, and frankly school standards need a champion.

  David Brooks

  School, Thinking, Choices

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Arizona is a national leader in school choice with both charter schools and tuition tax credits giving parents and their children more school choices than ever before.

  Jane D. Hull

  Children, School, Giving

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• I'm for higher standards measured in an intellectually honest way, with abundant school choice, ending social promotion. And I know how to do this because as governor of the state of Florida I created the first statewide voucher program in the country, the second statewide voucher program, in the country and the third statewide voucher program in the country.

  Jeb Bush

  Country, School, Florida

  Jeb Bush at GOP primary debate in Cleveland, Ohio, www.washingtonpost.com. August 6, 2015.

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• Every Republican will tell you they are for school choice, shrinking government, cutting the government workforce and getting rid of Common Core. But talk is cheap. Talk is just talk. I haven't just talked about these things. I've actually done these things.

  Bobby Jindal

  School, Cutting, Government

  "Bobby Jindal opens up about his 2016 presidential run". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. July 3, 2015.

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• Every Republican has a one-liner on ObamaCare. I've got detailed plans on energy independence, on school choice, on health care, on foreign policy. They all hire somebody to write their plans. They can borrow mine. I've actually got ideas. Enough with the slick talkers. Let's elect somebody that's done something.

  Bobby Jindal

  School, Writing, Ideas

  "Bobby Jindal opens up about his 2016 presidential run on 'Hannity'". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. July 3, 2015.

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• [Betsy] DeVos's statement turned a well-known Trump slogan, and proclaimed, we will make American education great again. Proponents of school choice were ecstatic, including Sandy Kress, a top education adviser in George W. Bush's administration.

  Claudio Sanchez

  School, Choices, Administration

  Source: www.npr.org

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• President-elect [Donald] Trump has made a provocative choice for secretary of education. Betsy DeVos comes from a wealthy Michigan family. She is an advocate for school choice. That phrase means, in essence, directing public education money to charter schools, private schools or parochial schools.

  Steve Inskeep

  School, Mean, Essence

  Source: www.npr.org

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• [Sandy] Kress says [Betsy] DeVos's record on school choice in Michigan sealed the deal.

  Claudio Sanchez

  School, Choices, Michigan

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Here's why I cannot vote for Rudy Giuliani. He's pro-abortion. He's never repudiated gay marriage in New York City or at least the civil unions in New York City. He's called a champion of gay rights. Rudy is opposed to school choice. He's in favor of open borders.

  James Dobson

  New York, School, Gay

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• If I were afraid of polls, I never would've been elected in two landslide elections, leading a highest percentage in our state's last election for governor. If I were afraid of polls, we wouldn't have privatized our charity hospital system, we wouldn't cut our state budget 26%, wouldn't have cut over 30,000 state government bureaucrats, wouldn't have done statewide school choice. Here's the real record.

  Bobby Jindal

  Real, School, Cutting

  "Meet the Press" with Chuck Todd, www.nbcnews.com. June 28, 2015.

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• In 2006, the number of children in targeted school choice programs nationwide will reach six digits for the first time, representing a 40 percent increase in the number of children in targeted school choice programs and an even bigger increase in the amount of public funding.

  Clint Bolick

  Children, School, Numbers

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• 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.

  David Bradley

  School, Opportunity, Choices

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• 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?

  Jonathan Kozol

  Education, School, White

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