Common Quote by Lewis Black

Schools used to fund-raise for luxuries, like a trip to the water slides. Now, we fund-raise for things we have to have.

— Kirk Gibson

This is the other thing: we make the cost of raising kids higher than it has to be just because we feel they need…

— Patricia Heaton

Our nation's commitment is to provide a quality education to every child to serve the public common good. Accordingly, we must shift the paradigm…

— Betsy DeVos

Common sense tells us that we should focus our resources to benefit children, teachers and taxpayers by keeping dollars in the classroom.

— Bob Beauprez

When you have a highly divided society, it's hard to come together to make investments in the common good.

— Joseph Stiglitz

Often times, when we talk about improving our public schools, it is easy to come back to the question of money. Are schools basically…

— Kristen Soltis Anderson

I don't think anyone enjoys raising money, but for some reason I seem to have a knack.

— Louis Susman

If we allow public funds to be used to support our relatively benign, morally grounded schools, we will have to allow those public funds…

— Jonathan Kozol

I don't know if people understand that there are different ways to raise money for great causes.

— Rick Dees

That's universal - we all want to bring every good thing to our children. But what's not universal is our ability to provide every…

— Melinda Gates

The public school education system has done so much for me that it would be wrong not give anything back.

— Amanda Warren

We need to make sure we're continuing to invest not only money, but respect and partnership with our schools.

— Miguel Cardona