Community Quote by Arne Duncan

School buildings should be opened and used twenty four hours a day.

— Nikki Giovanni

I have the students for six hours a day. The community has them for 18 hours, plus prenatal and early childhood. I don't believe…

— Bill Vaughan

Schools should be open. If it's a public education, and the school in your district is poor-performing, you should be able to put your…

— Jalen Rose

We have to provide good teachers, good environment, community involvement with schools.

— David Selby

We need to create schools that are organized to meet the needs of the kids they serve instead of what we've been doing. We…

— Pedro Noguera

Schools are natural magnets for community activities.

— John Williams

If you can create community in a classroom the kids will not drop out

— Martin Haberman

We must make sure that there is recess and P.E. class in every school, getting kids outside for 60 minutes, every day.

— Darell Hammond

Sure, integrating schools may sound benign. But whats the use of living in a gated community if my kids go to school and get…

— Stephen Colbert

It has always been my dream to open a school for the poor children in the city who drop out of school due to…

— Kumar Sanu

I went to big, broken, under-resourced public schools, but we had a real sense of community, because those were days in the '50s and…

— Deval Patrick

We're setting up an urban farm for kids on more than 20 acres in New Orleans. We want to make this a world-class educational…

— Emeril Lagasse