Affluent Quote by William Weld

We developed at the local school district level probably the best public school system in the world. Or it was until the Federal government…

— Ronald Reagan

The upshot is that to send its children to a school of even average quality, a family must outbid half of other similar families…

— Bob Frank

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

There are some people in our state who may choose a different public school because they have the private means to move from one…

— Tate Reeves

“The principal reason that districts within states often differ markedly in per-pupil expenditures is that school funding is almost always tied to property taxes,…

— Robert E. Slavin

Obviously Massachusetts has one of the best public school systems in the country. But there are schools, like in Brockton, where kids are struggling…

— Devin McCourty

Kids in high poverty are much more expensive to educate and need much more support... When they're packed into a classroom of 40 people,…

— Gretchen Whitmer

The inequalities are greater now than in '92. Some states have equalized per-pupil spending but they set the 'equal level' very low, so that…

— Jonathan Kozol

In America, we started the public school system very early in the century, and as a consequence we had more skilled workers than any…

— Barack Obama

Private schools are gaming the system. There is way too much state money going in, and people who go to private schools seem to…

— Angela Rayner

What are called 'public schools' in many of America's wealthy communities aren't really 'public' at all. In effect, they're private schools, whose tuition is…

— Robert Reich

It's time to admit that public education operates like a planned economy, a bureaucratic system in which everybody's role is spelled out in advance…

— Albert Shanker