Cities Quote by Jonathan Kozol

Real improvement in our schools is not simply a matter of spending more, it is a matter of expecting more.

— Anonymous

The Assembly passed a budget that makes the right choices for young students across the state by helping schools avoid cutting essential educational programs,…

— Jose Peralta

The contrasts between what is spent today to educate a child in the poorest New York City neighborhoods, where teacher salaries are often even…

— Jonathan Kozol

There's no particular relationship between spending and educational results. Most education spending is actually on salaries, and that's allocated according to political muscle.

— Peter Brimelow

Theres no particular relationship between spending and educational results. Most education spending is actually on salaries, and thats allocated according to political muscle.

— Peter Brimelow

I haven't met one parent or one teacher in Missouri who thinks we should balance the budget by taking money from kids' classrooms.

— Jay Nixon

Before, there was a general lack of respect for the numbers the School Committee came up with and for the way their budget was…

— Tom Green

The system that had grown up in most states is that wealthy districts with an affluent population can afford to spend a lot more…

— William Weld

The upshot is that to send its children to a school of even average quality, a family must outbid half of other similar families…

— Bob Frank

“The principal reason that districts within states often differ markedly in per-pupil expenditures is that school funding is almost always tied to property taxes,…

— Robert E. Slavin

The amount of money we spend on education is important, but not nearly as important as how the money is spent.

— Bob Riley

If you're a citizen of the State of New York, your kid has as much a right as another kid to an education, and…

— Carl Paladino