Works
“I’m not sure they’re appropriate every place. I can only tell you in New York, they provided parents with an alternative to send students to them. The charter schools are mixed in with the non-charter public schools, because our charter schools are public schools as well — they’ve helped each other.”
At the Democratic primary debate in South Carolina.
What Teachers Would Change
Unlocking Time
“As president, we will guarantee free, universal childcare and pre-kindergarten to every child in America to help level the playing field, create new and good jobs, and enable parents more easily balance the demands of work and home.”
In a statement introducing his $1.5 trillion childcare and pre-k plan.
Teachers Who Value Coaching
Digital Promise
“This budget request allows States the freedom to focus on people, not paperwork. Results, not regulations. We know States will spend their money differently, and that’s okay. In fact, that’s what we hope they do. They know best how to serve their students.”
On the release of President Trump's budget which cuts the Department's spending by almost 8%.
“Even the NCAA acknowledges now that federal legislation is necessary.”
Regarding compensation for student athletes.
2019 K-12 teacher donations to campaigns
Huffington Post
Podcast: A State Leader’s Vision for Higher Ed
Kim Hunter Reed, Louisiana’s Commissioner of Higher Education, discusses the state’s higher education…
Default Rates
The Brookings Institution
“When girls are educated and empowered, we uplift communities and families, reduce poverty, and create a safer and more prosperous world.”
In her statement on the passage of the Keeping Girls in School Act by the U.S. House of Representatives.
NSBAC Polling: School Funding
National School Boards Action Center
“I think there’s a middle ground where you can’t just say America is nothing and everybody run off and do your own thing. It’s important to have a common cultural context and even—and this will be very controversial—a common language of expression.”
Explaining that he's glad America has become less of a monoculture.
“There are 37 states that have what’s called a Blaine Amendment, which essentially was a bigoted action against Catholic schools in the 1800s.”
While discussing Espinoza v. Montana Dept. of Revenue during a Fox News exclusive.
Homeless Students
National Center for Homeless Education
“For many children, the food they eat at school is their only access to healthy, nutritious meals.”
On why the Trump administration's rollback of school nutrition guidelines is problematic for students.
Podcast: Transparency and Projected College Closings
The two founders of Edmit, Sabrina Manville and Nick Ducoff, discuss their projections of…
“The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.”
The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence…
2020 Voices From the Classroom
Educators for Excellence
“Our country’s experiment with debt-financed education went terribly wrong.”
In her statement on using the Higher Education Act to cancel student debt.
State of DC Schools
D.C. Policy Center
“I don’t think subsidizing the children of millionaires and billionaires to pay absolutely zero in tuition at public college is the best use of those scarce taxpayer dollars.”
During January's democratic presidential primary debate at Drake University in Iowa.
Podcast: What’s Ahead for Higher Ed in 2020?
Podcast hosts Jeff Selingo and Michael Horn reflect on the major higher education…
Graduate Loans
Center for American Progress
Teachers in the current Congress
Politico