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Recent decades clearly demonstrate that the more secular our Public Schools become the less successful they become academically. -- David Barton
My time at the Denver Public Schools taught me there is no harder, or more important, job than being a teacher. -- Michael Bennet
Public Schools too often fail because they are shielded from the very force that improves performance and sparks innovation in nearly every other human enterprise - competition. -- Bob Lutz
Study after study affirms what I saw in the classroom every day as superintendent of Denver Public Schools: Nothing makes a bigger difference for student learning than great teaching. -- Michael Bennet
Character issues such as drug abuse are not exclusive to Detroit Public Schools. My reference to substance abuse, not intended to focus on any particular school district, was simply used to illustrate this position. -- Kwame Kilpatrick
I am old enough to remember when America's K-12 public schools were the best in the world. I am a proud graduate of them, and I credit much of my success to what I learned in Detroit Public Schools and at Michigan State University. -- Eli Broad
When I was superintendent of Denver Public Schools, I saw the potential of some of our best and brightest students cut short, punished for the actions of others - kids who had grown up and done well in our school system, and kids who know no other home but America. This is unacceptable. -- Michael Bennet
Me, I was waiting tables of 13 and married at 19. I graduated from public schools, and taught elementary school. -- Elizabeth Warren
In my opinion, right up there with free public schools, our free public library system is what makes citizenship possible, even what makes America great. -- Karen DeCrow
Many well-meaning intelligent people have argued since the May 17, 1954, decision of the United States Supreme Court outlawing segregation in the public schools that communication between the races has broken down. -- Benjamin E. Mays
Public schools were designed as the great equalizers of our society - the place where all children could have access to educational opportunities to make something of themselves in adulthood. -- Janet Napolitano
Providing better computer science education in public schools to kids, and encouraging girls to participate, is the only way to rewrite stereotypes about tech and really break open the old-boys' club. -- Ryan Holmes
Another example of the educational inequality is the current debate over publicly financed school vouchers which will provide educational opportunities to a privileged handful, but deprive public schools of desperately needed resources. -- Bobby Scott
During the decades after Brown v. Board of Education there was terrific progress. Tens of thousands of public schools were integrated racially. During that time the gap between black and white achievement narrowed. -- Jonathan Kozol
From kindergarten to graduation, I went to public schools, and I know that they are a key to being sure that every child has a chance to succeed and to rise in the world. -- Dick Cheney
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If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals. -- Susan B. Anthony
The phenomenon of home schooling is a wonderful example of the American can-do attitude. Growing numbers of parents have become disenchanted with government-run public schools. Many parents have simply taken matters into their own hands, literally. -- Steve Forbes
Father had notions about manhood suffrage, public schools, the education and the elevation of the masses, and the gradual emancipation of the slaves, that did not suit the uncompromising views of people in places like Richmond. -- John Sergeant Wise
There are major efforts being made to dismantle Social Security, the public schools, the post office - anything that benefits the population has to be dismantled. Efforts against the U.S. Postal Service are particularly surreal. -- Noam Chomsky
It is a matter of public shame that while we have now commemorated our hundredth anniversary, not one in every ten children attending Public schools throughout the colonies is acquainted with a single historical fact about Australia. -- Henry Lawson
Second, when comparing private school and public school test scores, it's like apples and oranges. Public schools have to take everyone, but private schools can be selective. It's not accurate or fair to compare the job they do. -- Dennis Moore
In the government schools, which are referred to as public schools, Indian policy has been instituted there, and its a policy where they do not encourage, in fact, discourage, critical thinking and the creation of ideas and public education. -- Russell Means
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 hidden away in the purchase price of upscale homes there, and in the corresponding property taxes. -- Robert Reich
Our public schools arbitrarily define science as explaining the world by natural processes alone. In essence, a religion of naturalism is being imposed on millions of students. They need to be taught the real nature of science, including its limitations. -- Ken Ham
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A society - any society - is defined as a set of mutual benefits and duties embodied most visibly in public institutions: public schools, public libraries, public transportation, public hospitals, public parks, public museums, public recreation, public universities, and so on. -- Robert Reich
It's time to update traditional public schools, charter schools, home schools, online schools and parochial schools. Let the dollars follow the child instead of forcing the child to follow the dollars, so that every child has the opportunity to attain an education. -- Bobby Jindal
A high-speed connection is no more an essential civil right than 3G cell phone service or a Netflix account. Increasing competition and restoring academic excellence in abysmal public schools is far more of an imperative to minority children than handing them iPads. -- Michelle Malkin
Frankly, I'm not sure how far I would get if I attended public school today. It's not just that public schools aren't producing the results we want - it's that we're not giving them what they need to help students achieve at high levels. K-12 education in the United States is deeply antiquated. -- Eli Broad
I'm very, very concerned ultimately, as Medicaid costs increase in my state and most states, it's going to reduce funding for state aid to our public schools, to our higher education institution or higher taxes on the middle class that President Obama said he didn't want to do. And that's exactly where he's headed. -- Dave Heineman
With demands for special education or standardized test prep being shouted in their ears, public schools can't always hear a parent when he says: 'I want my child to be able to write contracts in Spanish,' or, 'I want my child to shake hands firmly,' or, 'I want my child to study statistics and accounting, not calculus.' -- Amity Shlaes
For digital natives, public schools are jails -- Bing Gordon
Grammar schools are public schools without the sodomy. -- Tony Parsons
Close Dept. of Education, but don't dismantle public schools. -- Ron Paul
Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality. -- Henry Fielding
Out of the public schools comes the greatness of the nation. -- Mark Twain
My top priority is to stop the cuts to our public schools. -- Fred DuVal
Drop out of the public schools. The public schools cannot be compromised with. -- Timothy Leary
I believe the public schools are the greatest cultural influence in this country. -- Phyllis Schlafly
It is bigotry for public schools to teach only one theory of origins. -- Clarence Darrow
I went to the public schools myself. And they were great for me. -- Chuck Schumer
I went to the public schools myself. And they were great for me. -- Chuck Schumer
Free education for all children in public schools... Combination of education with industrial production -- Karl Marx
Education technology is very important because we have a massive challenge in public schools. -- Major Owens
The Ten Commandments being taken out of the public schools. I want them back. -- Kinky Friedman
I believe public education is the new civil rights battle and I support charter schools. -- Andrew Cuomo
You won't believe what our kids are eating in the public schools. It's just nuts. -- Mary McCormack
If prayer is to leave the public schools, let the ridicule of prayer leave also. -- Boyd K. Packer
We don't have drama in public schools in France. I had never taking an acting class. -- Stephanie Szostak
Was putting a man on the moon actually easier than improving education in our public schools? -- B. F. Skinner
Public schools teaching students to hate America as the left appeases Muslims with "religious literacy training." -- Rush Limbaugh
The concept of religious freedom is largely ignored in the curriculum of our nation's public schools. -- Charles Haynes
Nowadays, with history not being taught anymore in American public schools, self-esteem is taking its place. -- Dennis Miller
If a person wants to be publicly gay, they should not be teaching in the public schools. -- Jim DeMint
The ACLU's various policies regarding religious freedom in public schools are a revealing collection of anti-religious bias. -- F. LaGard Smith
Female schools might be comprised in the list of those worthy the public patronage, with great propriety. -- Joseph Lancaster
Doesn't anything socialistic make you want to throw up? Like great public schools, or health insurance for all? -- Kurt Vonnegut
Every successive generation becomes a living memorial of our public schools, and a living example of their excellence. -- Joseph Story
Privatizing our public schools makes as much sense as privatizing the fire department or or the police department -- Diane Ravitch
Public schools are where the next generation of leaders are educated and where cultural exchange will take place. -- Eugenie Scott
So I want my kids to go to public schools because I think it's a better education overall. -- Chuck Schumer
So I want my kids to go to public schools because I think it's a better education overall. -- Chuck Schumer
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As Governor of Texas, I have set high standards for our public schools, and I have met those standards. -- George W. Bush
Our public schools began as ministries of the church; now it is time to return them to the Lord. -- Jay Alan Sekulow
Our public schools began as ministries of the church; now it is time to return them to the Lord. -- Jay Alan Sekulow
American education will be determined by the quality of American public education, and that's public schools that are available. -- Mark Shields
You look at public education system, charter schools, infrastructure, in so many ways New Orleans has come back stronger. -- Drew Brees
I was born and raised in California and benefited from California's excellent public schools, from kindergarten through medical school. -- Ami Bera
I do not believe any type of religion should ever be introduced into the public schools of the United States. -- Thomas A. Edison
[The notion of separating church and state with such policies as disallowing prayer in public schools] is a deception from Satan. -- Joyce Meyer
The Ku Klux Klan stands for free speech, free public schools, the open Bible for our people and for 100% American citizenship. -- James Brice
And there should not be a limit on the creation of new public schools. We ought to expand choices for parents. -- John Engler
Its amazing that so many kids turn out to be fairly normal, considering the weird socialization they get in public schools. -- Rick Santorum
I can imagine no more important contribution to our country's future than a long-term commitment to improving urban K-12 public schools. -- Eli Broad
A young man passes from our public schools to the universities, ignorant almost of the elements of every branch of useful knowledge. -- Charles Babbage
I wanted to find ways for colleges and universities to become involved with public schools to help young people prepare for college. -- Freeman A. Hrabowski III
When I was growing up, there were a lot more arts in the public schools. Politically, America has screwed up on that. -- Julie Taymor
Any time you have poverty, joblessness, sub-par public schools, and a lack of opportunity, you're going to have a high rate of crime. -- George Pelecanos
Charter schools are public schools. They're paid for publicly and they're part of the public system. They just have a more independent structure. -- David Brooks
90 percent of American schoolchildren are in public schools. And the emphasis on private schools and charter schools and parochial schools is not unimportant. -- Mark Shields
Half the Christian churches of New York are trying to ruin the free public schools in order to replace them by religious dogma. -- W. E. B. Du Bois
As regards moral courage, then, it is not so much that the public schools support it feebly, as that they suppress it firmly. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Did it ever occur to anyone that if you put nice libraries in public schools you wouldn't have to put them in prisons? -- Fran Lebowitz
As regards moral courage, then, it is not so much that the public schools support it feebly, as that they suppress it firmly. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
We're going to bring back God and the Bible and drive the gods of secular humanism right out of the public schools of America. -- Pat Buchanan
Legislatures not driven to desperation by the problems of public education may be able to see the threat in vouchers negotiable in sectarian schools. -- David Souter
Charter schools are just public schools on a slightly longer leash. A dog on a long leash is still a dog on a leash. -- Marshall Fritz
For the primary and secondary school years, we will aid public schools serving low-income families and assist students in both public and private schools. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
While vast sums of money are being siphoned off into hidden [military] coffers, Americas schools, hospitals and public services are facing cutbacks and closures. -- Henry Waxman
When you introduce competition into the public school system, most studies show that schools start to do better when they are competing for students. -- Bill Cosby
When you wage war on the public schools, you're attacking the mortar that holds the community together. You're not a conservative, you're a vandal. -- Garrison Keillor
If you want a good education, go to private schools. If you can't afford it, tough luck. You can go to the public school. -- Paul LePage
The public schools shall be free from sectarian influences and, above all, free from any attitude of hostility to the adherents of any particular creed. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
I was born in Columbia in 1954, the year the Supreme Court invalidated racial segregation in public schools. I visited frequently but did not live there. -- Randall Kennedy
American politician doesWe're going to bring back God and the Bible and drive the gods of secular humanism right out of the public schools of America. -- Pat Buchanan
I hate the fact that public schools like the one I went to have fantastic sports facilities, and state schools don't. That's not fair. That's outrageous. -- Clare Balding
Harvard produces leaders. People with Harvard degrees go on to become administrators in high-level positions in state educational departments and in public schools around the country. -- Christina Hoff Sommers
We all know that great leaders can create great successes...success for the Chicago public education fund is to bring great leaders into Chicago's public schools. -- Kenneth C. Griffin
Many years ago Christian pioneers had to fight savage Indians. Today missionaries of these former cultures are being sent via the public schools to heathenize our children. -- Phyllis Schlafly
Creationists who want religious ideas taught as scientific fact in public schools continue to adapt to courtroom defeats by hiding their true aims under ever changing guises. -- Eugenie Scott
The people of Missouri said they expect their elected leaders to support public schools because they know that education is the best economic development tool there is. -- Jay Nixon
That should be the goal, is that every kid in every neighborhood, despite whatever challenges they may face, are getting a great education in our public schools. -- Michelle Rhee
We cannot go beyond the consumer society unless we first understand that obligatory public schools inevitably reproduce such a society, no matter what is taught in them. -- Ivan Illich
I want the public as well as libraries and schools to enjoy unlimited access to public-domain books. This means no charges for these kind of texts themselves. -- Tom Peters
Almost all the students who make it to Caltech, one of the best scientific universities in the world, come from public schools. So it can be done. -- Thomas Friedman
If we were to remove the Bible from public schools we would be wasting so much time punishing crimes and taking so little pains to prevent them. -- Benjamin Rush
I was aware that a quarter of the children in the country are born in poverty, and that the condition of public schools in California was disastrous. -- Robert Hass
I see bright kids trapped in public schools that are just warehousing them. As an educator this makes me scared. As Secretary of State, this makes me terrified. -- Maria Shriver
And then the conditions of safety - or lack of safety - for teachers in public schools, and the disparity between public schools and private schools is shameful. -- Warren Beatty
American [public] schools are failing because they are organized according to a bureaucratic, monopolistic model; their organizing principle is basically the same as that of a socialist economy. -- David Boaz
For decades, the public school system failed too many children, so we passed the No Child Left Behind Act and demanded schools show results in return for money. -- George W. Bush
As the son of a union activist and a lifelong Democrat, I've always thought that privatizing our public schools is not the answer. We must strengthen public schools. -- Eli Broad
I see myself as a social conservative, but I think that there are lots of social institutions that produce beneficial reforms, like public hospitals, for instance, and schools. -- Tony Abbott
I see myself as a social conservative, but I think that there are lots of social institutions that produce beneficial reforms, like public hospitals, for instance, and schools -- Tony Abbott
Private schools have been attacking public schools and really I was just a pawn in their game. I speak at schools of all ages on a regular basis. -- Gorilla Zoe
Whenever people talk glibly of a need to achieve educational "excellence," I think of what an improvement it would be if our public schools could just achieve mediocrity. -- Thomas Sowell
In 1933, the Nazis came to power and the more systematic persecution of the Jews followed quickly. Laws were enacted which excluded Jewish children from higher education in public schools. -- Jack Steinberger
I do look upon the secretary of education's primary responsibility as the quality of education that - and improving the education that every child in American public schools receives. -- Mark Shields

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