Public School Quotes - Page 7

• American education will be determined by the quality of American public education, and that's public schools that are available.

  Mark Shields

  School, Quality, Determined

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Charter schools are public schools. They're paid for publicly and they're part of the public system. They just have a more independent structure.

  David Brooks

  School, Independent, Structure

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I [have big plans]. Promoting freedom around the world, particularly with women in the Middle East. Working on global disease. Working on accountability in public schools. And advocating for a free marketplace and an economic environment in which businesses can innovate and create jobs.

  George W. Bush

  Jobs, School, Accountability

  Source: www.aarp.org

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• I knew early on that I wanted to be a reporter, but I didn't know I was a political journalist until my first job in Boston, in the '70s, covering the public school committee at a time when busing was a huge issue. Children's lives were being directly affected by political decisions, and that's when I realized that everything is politics.

  Gwen Ifill

  Jobs, Children, School

  Source: www.oprah.com

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• The fact is in a city like Chicago, for example, unemployment in the black community is around 20 percent for adults, 35 percent for youth, they bail out the banks, public schools, there is a deep divide. We need a plan for reconstruction and redevelopment and I hope that - police are the gatekeepers but behind that gate are these problems of disparities and injustice.

  Jesse Jackson

  School, Cities, Community

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• English was my fourth language. I arrived, I enrolled in public school, as a child, I believe I was about six years old when we finally landed in Michigan. And I was initially put in special education because I couldn't quite wrap my mind around the English language because I was listening to Hungarian and Albanian and German. My mind broke down like I couldn't quite wrap my mind around the fourth language.

  Masiela Lusha

  Children, Believe, School

  Source: thecelebritycafe.com

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• Finally, one night we were smoking pot [with Michael O'Donoghue] and talking about the people that are invariably in high school, whether you go to prep school or public school or ghetto school or rich suburban school. And actually, it spun off from a Kurt Vonnegut quote.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  School, Ghetto, Night

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• 90 percent of American schoolchildren are in public schools. And the emphasis on private schools and charter schools and parochial schools is not unimportant.

  Mark Shields

  School, Emphasis, Charter

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• 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.

  Mark Shields

  School, Trump, Not Sure

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I do look upon the secretary of education's primary responsibility as the quality of education that - and improving the education that every child in American public schools receives.

  Mark Shields

  Children, School, Responsibility

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Now have two generations whose minds have been totally perverted, polluted, and destroyed by the American public education system, and, in particular, the history curriculum. Breitbart has a story on how this has happened. As the left appeases Muslims, public schools are teaching students to hate America.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Hate, Teaching, School

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Public schools teaching students to hate America as the left appeases Muslims with "religious literacy training."

  Rush Limbaugh

  Religious, Hate, Teaching

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The trouble is that Millennials and many recent products of the public schools believe that America was made great, if they're even taught that it's great, if they're taught that it's great, you know what they're told is the reason? Diversity. There's diversity all over the world. You can go to places where there is diversity out the wazoo, folks. You can go to places all over the place world and you can find the most diversity, you can find perfect diversity, however you find it. You will not find a United States.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Believe, School, America

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• It pains me, it really does, to learn that there are people that hate America. I wish there was something I could do about it. I don't want young people to be taken down the wrong path and taught to feel guilty or ashamed of their country, which is happening in way too many public schools.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, Pain, Hate

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I worry that the weakness - particularly of our public schools - is going to make that less and less true for everybody. And if we ever lose that as our core, then we're going to lose our confidence. We're not going to lead. We're going to protect. We're going to turn inward. That would be very bad for the world. So as a former Secretary of State, I think I can advocate for education as a national security priority.

  Condoleezza Rice

  School, Thinking, Worry

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• I had serious reservations about putting my son in the public schools in my area. I have a tremendous amount of fear for the future of my boy. He's nine-and- a-half and dark-skinned. By the time he's 12 or 13, who knows who he's going to be identifying with in these days when you get shot down for wearing expensive Nikes to school...I've heard that if a Latino makes it to 19 years of age, he has a good chance of surviving into adulthood. Up until then, you don't know.

  Ana Castillo

  Nike, School, Son

  Source: www.english.illinois.edu

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• Privatization radically alters power relations in our society by weakening groups like public employees and public school teachers.

  Nancy MacLean

  Teacher, School, Relation

  Source: www.salon.com

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• My father said, "Okay, enough with the Jewish school." He put me into a public school and he said, "If you are the first one in your class, that means the school is bad." That was his humor.

  Chantal Akerman

  Father, School, Mean

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• I like playing at public schools. I like when there's more of a diverse audience. I'll play wherever people want to hear my music, and I'll be glad and grateful for the opportunity, but I'd rather not play for a bunch of white privileged kids. I'm not meaning that in a disrespectful way; you go where people want to hear your music. So if that's where people want to hear me play, I'm glad to play for them. But I'd rather play for an audience where half of them were not into it than one where all of them were pretending to be into it, for fear of being uncultured.

  Bradford Cox

  Grateful, School, Kids

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The 1970s were the height of social mobility. College was accessible. My grandfather was a poor immigrant who went to a public school in Ohio, and my father went to Harvard. That wasn't unusual. There was a feeling that anything was possible and you didn't have to be born into money to have a successful life. Now, people don't believe in the idea that anything is possible. We have more inequality than we've had ever before and a greater concentration of wealth in the hands of a few.

  Lauren Greenfield

  Father, Believe, School

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• If our public school system is a truly democratic institution. It's the place where we can reach every child in this county from kindergarten. What an opportunity to edibly educate them. I don't just mean a glorified cooking class. I've never thought of it that way. I have always thought of it as a way to empower students to learn, to give them confidence, and to nourish them. So, I think the centerpiece has to be a free, sustainable school lunch for every child.

  Alice Waters

  Children, School, Mean

  Source: www.salon.com

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• Economics now drives politics. This gives us a system in which the relationship between power and politics is no longer fused. Power is global. We have an elite that now floats in global flows. It could care less about the nation-state, and it could care less about traditional forms of politics. Hence, it makes no political concessions whatsoever. It attacks unions, it attacks public schools, it attacks public goods. It doesn't believe in the social contract.

  Henry Giroux

  Believe, School, Giving

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• America is at war with itself because it's basically declared war not only on any sense of democratic idealism, but it's declared war on all the institutions that make democracy possible. And we see it with the war on public schools. We see it with the war on education. We see it with the war on the healthcare system.

  Henry Giroux

  War, School, Democracy

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• My dad was a doctor who worked at a jail. He was more like a jail administrator. My mom was a public school teacher. There's no artists in my family whatsoever. So I don't know how that got in my gene pool, but it did.

  Dan Amboyer

  Mom, Teacher, Dad

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• In America, we started the public school system very early in the century, and as a consequence we had more skilled workers than any nation on Earth, which meant that we were more productive than any nation on Earth.

  Barack Obama

  School, America, Earth

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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