Accomplished Quote by Diane Ravitch

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

Charter schools are public schools that operate, to a certain extent, outside the system. They have more control over their teachers, curriculum and resources.…

— Maggie Gallagher

Meanwhile, parents, students and teachers all report higher satisfaction with charter schools. People like them. They cost less money. They raise the academic achievement…

— Maggie Gallagher

Charter schools were supposed to compete with public schools, and in turn, that competition was meant to improve education. But that wasn't the end…

— Ana Kasparian

“If we continue on the present course, with big foundations and the federal government investing heavily in opening more charter schools, the result is…

— Diane Ravitch

Very few charter schools are being created in some of the best school districts in the state. If you're an educational innovator, that isn't…

— John Engler

Charters give public school teachers the flexibility to design programs to the individual student needs. They no longer have to go to a distant…

— Gary Larson

Apparently almost anyone can do a better job of educating children than our so-called 'educators' in the public schools. Children who are home-schooled by…

— Thomas Sowell

Well, just as in the quality of public schools, there is massive disparity and the compensation given to the public school teachers.

— Charles Best

Support charters; insist on change for failing schools.

— Newt Gingrich

One of my main legislative efforts in education is to help expand and replicate successful charter schools. Charter schools are public schools with site-based…

— Jared Polis

As the son of a union activist and a lifelong Democrat, I've always thought that privatizing our public schools is not the answer. We…

— Eli Broad