Economy Quote by David Boaz

Public Schools too often fail because they are shielded from the very force that improves performance and sparks innovation in nearly every other human…

— Bob Lutz

It's time to admit that public education operates like a planned economy, a bureaucratic system in which everybody's role is spelled out in advance…

— Albert Shanker

Public schools are government-established, politician- and bureaucrat-controlled, fully politicized, taxpayer-supported, authoritarian socialist institutions. In fact, the public-school system is one of the purest examples…

— Tom L. Johnson

The problem is not that public schools do not work well, but rather that they do. The first goal and primary function of schools…

— Wendy McElroy

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

— Mark Shields

Today's public education system is a failed monopoly: bureaucratic, rigid and in unsteady control of dissatisfied captive markets.

— David T. Kearns

We developed at the local school district level probably the best public school system in the world. Or it was until the Federal government…

— Ronald Reagan

All around the United States of America - in the cities and the counties - our public education is suffering and has been suffering.…

— Bill Cosby

When it comes to public school education, we have been unwilling to measure our results. We've been unwilling to pay based on performance. We…

— Michael Bloomberg

I think there are really are some public schools, incredibly successful public schools, that are inculcating a real educational ethic in their students.

— Charles Best

The problem is, education in America is sub-optimal because it is an impossible thing to optimize. It necessarily has to be local because different…

— Hank Green

Schools alone are not to blame for underachievement. The breakdown of the family, poverty, and decaying cities with eroding tax bases have made a…

— Bob Beckel