Budget Quote by Mark Robinson

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

We need to increase education budgets.

— Malala Yousafzai

As a member of the State Board of Education, I have been a part of meetings concerning new standards for our public school system…

— Mark Robinson

“To make up for the projected billion-dollar-a-year shortfall created by the many new tax cuts he helped to deliver, something had to give. So…

— Jane Mayer

Let's put in place programs to ensure that all of our children are reading by third grade.

— Valerie Jarrett

We can't want an education for kids more than they want it for themselves.

— Tony Danza

The fact is that our kids aren't reading books - or frankly, much of anything lately. Schools are under funded, some schools even closing…

— James Patterson

We can't afford not to fully fund education.

— John Perez

We are not going to have a situation where our education spending goes back to its lowest level since the year 2000 despite a…

— Barack Obama

The states do have more control over education, and they have the responsibility for funding it.

— Miguel Cardona

We need schools to force kids to learn things they have no use for.

— Daniel Quinn

“No matter what our curriculum requires us to teach or how little class time we have, children must read a lot in order to…

— Donalyn Miller