Marylanders have led the nation in adopting a balanced approach to revenues and investments because we know that in order to maintain… — Martin O'Malley Copy Share Image
My mother didn't feel very satisfied about the English background that I had received in the public schools in Littleton. So, she… — Ella Baker Copy Share Image
Beating up on public schools is not just our nation's favorite blood sport, but also a favorite conversational entertainment of the well-off… — Sandra Tsing Loh Copy Share Image
Ensuring preschool education for all and investing more in public schools is essential if the U.S. is to avoid becoming a neo-feudal… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
My education in the public schools of New York City between 1932 and 1944 was an excellent preparation for a life in… — Robert Fogel Copy Share Image
“public schools in the 1940s, then to City College in upper Manhattan, and then to New York University Law School. The fourth… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
In Barack Obama, we have a great education president who is rebuilding America. His Race to the Top program is doing more… — Jim Hunt Copy Share Image
As a complete product of Issaquah public schools, there is absolutely no way I would be here if I didn't have well-funded… — David Call Copy Share Image
So long as public schools are treated as places that exist to provide guaranteed jobs to members of the teachers' unions, do… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The bottom line is that the federal government is an important partner in addressing issues like funding our public schools, fixing our… — Tony Evers Copy Share Image
“Finally, it was clear that the real innovation in Korea was not happening in the government or the public schools. It was… — Amanda Ripley Copy Share Image
I'm very, very concerned ultimately, as Medicaid costs increase in my state and most states, it's going to reduce funding for state… — Dave Heineman Copy Share Image
I would like to see more African-American singers as part of our opera companies. If you take music and the arts out… — Jessye Norman Copy Share Image
The public schools in our neighborhood were so bad that the teachers in the school said you shouldn't send your kids here.… — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
Cincinnati like so many other cities, we know that so many of our schools, when it comes to public schools, are still… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
You could argue that [the decline of public schools] is one of the major disasters in our lifetimes. We took one of… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
I grew up in New York, and I grew up with a mother who was an arts lover herself, and I went… — Merritt Wever Copy Share Image
Frankly, I'm not sure how far I would get if I attended public school today. It's not just that public schools aren't… — Eli Broad Copy Share Image
There were no politics to polarize us then, to magnify every slight. The "negroes" of Washington had their public schools, restaurants, bars,… — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
At various points, I've had a massive chip on me shoulder. I had fights about me accent with loads of those fellers… — Sid Waddell Copy Share Image
I grew up on the Eastern Shore during desegregation. A lot of white parents chose to send their kids to private schools… — Ralph Northam Copy Share Image
Many well-meaning intelligent people have argued since the May 17, 1954, decision of the United States Supreme Court outlawing segregation in the… — Benjamin E. Mays Copy Share Image
With demands for special education or standardized test prep being shouted in their ears, public schools can't always hear a parent when… — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
The Bible is and should be an appropriate course of study in our public schools. Because it is the most widely read,… — Mike Johnson Copy Share Image
Public schools helped create the idea of America and inculcate Americans with a few rudiments of knowledge. To judge by that very… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
From my grandfather's father, I learned to dispense with attendance at public schools, and to enjoy good teachers at home, and to… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Boston's journey through nearly four centuries of change is the stuff of American history. From starting a Revolution on the waterfront to… — Marty Walsh Copy Share Image
When state funding for Irvine public schools began to diminish some time ago, my Irvine Company colleagues helped me to provide private… — Donald Bren Copy Share Image
Global pandemics, cyberwarfare, information warfare - these are threats that require highly motivated, highly educated bureaucrats; a national health-care system that covers… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
My son Bill, who came to me in 1960-he was 14 then, quoted the old parable to me: "It is not by… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
“To me, nothing can be more important than giving children books, It's better to be giving books to children than drug treatment… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
America is at war with itself because it's basically declared war not only on any sense of democratic idealism, but it's declared… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
The misconceptions about grammar posted on the 'Net are at least as bad as the misconceptions about evolution, presumably because American public… — Raphael Carter Copy Share Image
When I was superintendent of Denver Public Schools, I saw the potential of some of our best and brightest students cut short,… — Michael Bennet Copy Share Image
“Over the last forty years, many educators, decision-makers, and even some parents have come to regard the arts as peripheral, and let’s… — Betty Edwards Copy Share Image
“Biographical history, as taught in our public schools, is still largely a history of boneheads: ridiculous kings and queens, paranoid political leaders,… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
This notion of public-school doors being barred to God would have confounded not only the founding fathers but also those who attended… — William Murchison Copy Share Image
American [public] schools are failing because they are organized according to a bureaucratic, monopolistic model; their organizing principle is basically the same… — David Boaz Copy Share Image
Uber is hardly the first company to exploit the financial vulnerability of teachers - and the desperation of public schools more broadly… — Alissa Quart Copy Share Image
There are 12 million illegal immigrants in this country - drawing welfare benefits, sending their children to public schools, and pushing down… — Sam Graves Copy Share Image
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