Less fortunate Quote by Nandan Nilekani

Having our own children in good schools does not inure us from the ill-effect of others having theirs in poor schools. Having great roads…

— Rohini Nilekani

It's hard to improve our schools. It's hard to redistribute wealth created by the concentration of technological and financial power or to increase middle-class…

— Glenn Kelman

The schools that suffer are the schools in, in poor neighborhoods. They are the neighborhoods with the greatest need, with the parents struggling to…

— Sonia Sotomayor

Poverty is so significant that we can't expect to overcome the impacts of poverty in schools.

— Michelle Rhee

If you're poor, you don't often live near a good school. If it's a competitive public school program, our kids are not prepared to…

— Sonia Sotomayor

Sure, integrating schools may sound benign. But whats the use of living in a gated community if my kids go to school and get…

— Stephen Colbert

As we segregate by income into different communities, schools in lower-income areas have fewer resources than ever.

— Robert Reich

As somebody who visits countless schools, I see firsthand the dire situation our educational system faces.

— Jarrett J. Krosoczka

We cannot ignore the disparity in resources that continue to plague many of our school systems, especially those serving predominantly inner-city minority and impoverished…

— Diane Watson

“We bus to avoid integrating our housing, underscoring the fact that we continually ask our schools to do what we can't seem to do…

— Mike Rose

I'm a product of public schools. They are resource-challenged, and when you take those dollars away from public schools and send them to private…

— Raja Krishnamoorthi

I just cannot understand why we can't have better schools. That private schools are the only option for the kind of high-net-worth crowd, I…

— Marc Benioff