Community Quote by Michael Bennet

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

States should not balance their budgets on the backs of students.

— Arne Duncan

Our public schools need to be in the control of parents and the community, as opposed to businessmen who see the $23 billion budget…

— Charles Barron

“dozens of school districts forwent federal funding rather than integrate their schools.”

— Isabel Wilkerson

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

We cannot allow our kids not to have an educational opportunity.

— Gwen Moore

The opponents of my budget propose taking $200 million out of our classrooms and instead spending it on a larger school employee pay raise.…

— Bob Riley

We're not proposing any shifting of funding from public schools to private schools.

— Betsy DeVos

I'd propose that each central-city child should have an entitlement from the state to attend any school in the metropolitan area outside his own…

— James S. Coleman

Headteachers and governing bodies run schools and that won't change.

— Anonymous

Only a system of state-controlled schools can be free to teach whatever the welfare of the State may demand.

— Ellwood Patterson Cubberley