California Quote by Robert Hass

Before I was governor, tuition was skyrocketing, and we stopped that. We capped and then we froze college tuition.

— George Allen

How is it we could have a system where schools could remain lousy for 50 years and yet you do exactly the same thing…

— Geoffrey Canada

“But by the end of two years, most have either changed careers or moved to suburban schools - a consequence of low pay, a…

— Barack Obama

I think it's a scandal what has been happening in the school system so far as lower income classes. The dropout rates, the illiteracy…

— Milton Friedman

The bad news in our most cosmopolitan and vibrant cities is that many middle-class people can no longer afford to live in 'middle-class' school…

— Sandra Tsing Loh

I was aware that a quarter of the children in the country are born in poverty, and that the condition of public schools in…

— Robert Hass

We are now operating a school system in America that's more segregated than at any time since the death of Martin Luther King.

— Jonathan Kozol

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 low standards of our state-run schools and our weak infrastructure have especially hurt the poor in terms of access: those of us who…

— Nandan Nilekani

Social mobility decreased under Labour and under the current government it is reversing. The differences between the poorest and richest are returning to Victorian…

— Jonathan Trigell

School disruption comes from those children who have given up hope.

— Albert Shanker

In England, the class system is about a thousand years old, and it's not going to change any time soon.

— Naveen Andrews