Agendas Quote by Diane Ravitch

The foundations demand that public schools and teachers be held accountable for performance, but they themselves are accountable to no one. If their plans…

— Diane Ravitch

“Rob Reich, a professor of political science at Stanford University and co-director of the Stanford Center for Philanthropy and Civil Society, explains that private…

— Jane Mayer

The public is not cognizant of the real value of education, and does not realize that education as a social force is not receiving…

— Anonymous

“Today, they are commonplace, and rarely controversial, but Americans across the political spectrum once regarded the whole idea of private foundations with enormous suspicion.…

— Jane Mayer

“...the establishment of a universal system of public education inevitably changed the relations of education to the state. It is this above all else…

— Christopher Henry Dawson

I am opposed to the use of public funds for private education.

— Jonathan Kozol

Instead of treating education as a public good that is a foundation for our society, the Trump administration is trying to demonize it and…

— Andy Kim

Governments have ever been known to hold a high hand over the education of the people. They know, better than anyone else, that their…

— Francesc Ferrer i Guardia

Public education was not founded to give society what it wants. Quite the opposite.

— May Sarton

Public education is a great instrument of social change. Through it, if we so desire, we can make our country more nearly a democracy…

— James Bryant Conant

Widespread public access to knowledge, like public education, is one of the pillars of our democracy, a guarantee that we can maintain a well-informed…

— Scott Turow

An attack on public education is an attack on democracy.

— Diane Ravitch