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We're opening up the doors of the schools to the community and we'd like to see as much community in...
CHARLES KRAMER![]()
The public education landscape is enriched by having many options - neighborhood public schools, mag...
RANDI WEINGARTEN The way to improve schools is to give parents real options by providing parents with full school cho...
ALLAN PARKER The progress is just amazing. The children are in our schools; the parents are in our community. Whe...
DEBBIE HUNT I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Little Falls Community Schools is here for the kids. We will stand up and be counted,
BRUCE ANDERSON You don't have poor schools for long if the community demands otherwise.
DR. HENRY JOHNSON![]()
I am old enough to remember when America's K-12 public schools were the best in the world. I am ...
ELI BROAD![]()
At present, black children are more segregated in their public schools than at any time since 1968. ...
JONATHAN KOZOL![]()
Our political establishment refuses to use the word 'segregated.' They call the schools dive...
JONATHAN KOZOL The public schools bring the community together and make it more vibrant. I feel that this is an exc...
ELAINE HANRATTY More and more states are looking at voucher programs, or trying to organize public schools on a priv...
CHRIS LUBIENSKI![]()
In my wildest imagination, I never thought that the fifth of six children born to Helen and Buddy Wa...
J. C. WATTS No one community is immune to it. We try to be vigilant and on top of our responsibilities. Fire, po...
BRIAN CALLAGHAN This year the focus is on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi and Louisiana to donate money and resources ...
BEVERLY BRAHAN I think the black community is no different from any other community. We need to take responsibility...
PEARL CLEAGE![]()
Jim Crow laws stripped blacks of basic rights. Despite landmark civil rights laws, many public schoo...
BOB BECKEL We were going to exclude kids from the state and public forum debate if we stayed with intelligent d...
BOB HETLER That concept has not caught on in Las Vegas. The schools need to focus on giving kids better hands-o...
BILL WERKSMAN California's charter schools continue to be at the forefront of successful public education reform; ...
CAPRICE YOUNG The idea of community and helping others has always been a part of who I am. Growing up, my parents ...
BLAKE MYCOSKIE The segregated schools of today are arguably no more equal than the segregated schools of the past.
ED MARKEY Many of these individuals and families may well decide to become our neighbors, ... We need to welco...
CHARLES FARMER In general, the private schools tend to play at a higher level than the public schools, which is dif...
PATRICK ALVIN Both ... served our schools for many years. Both were role models for our youths and well liked by o...
ALEXANDER GARDNER![]()
Art shouldn't be prohibited in public schools when kids in private schools always get it.
AGNES GUND Where we grew up was rural country. It was a good community, mostly church-going farmers. We enjoyed...
EDYTHE SCOTT BAGLEY When my mom, Mercedes, and her younger sister, Juanita, first came from Puerto Rico, they were the y...
KIMBERLY GUILFOYLE![]()
It appears that some school officials, teachers, and parents have assumed that religious expression ...
BILL CLINTON Parents raise hell and refuse to send their kids to classrooms infested with asbestos. Yet every day...
JOSEPH CALIFANO During my childhood, Washington was a segregated city, and I lived in the midst of a poor black neig...
IRVIN D. YALOM We go to high schools and give students the opportunity to earn community service hours. They end up...
GARRY DAIGLER![]()
It's easy to blame the nature-deficit disorder on the kids' or the parents' back, but th...
RICHARD LOUV For their safety and the safety of the community as a whole we transported the students to their sch...
FRED MURPHY Our high schools are critical to the success of our community. Restructuring is critical. We need to...
BOB LOVINGOOD We have an issue with closing our school, ... We're trying to draw families into our community, and ...
BOB GRAY This is not about embarrassing people who are not a threat. Our top concern has to be the kids that ...
JASON BREWER We are a community of layers of generations. In 1990, my parents were still in the house where I gre...
LANA HALL We're doing this for the kids. We're an independent group of community and business leaders, coaches...
JASON DEMARCO![]()
Our nation's oldest sin and deepest crime is the isolation of minority children - black children...
JONATHAN KOZOL![]()
Ninety years after slavery, blacks were still segregated from whites. They still had separate drinki...
BENJAMIN WATSON I grew up going to public school, and they were huge public schools. I went to a school that had 3,2...
P. J. O'ROURKE We always welcome the community in our district, but this week in particular, we invite the people t...
DR. JAMES WILCOX By making transportation more convenient for our parents by reducing the threshold from a mile to th...
JANET WALSH We've always partnered with the schools. They are the anchors of the community.
TONY IORIO It's very important for the real estate community, as well, to have good schools. Overall, you might...
DENIS HANKS The club here is really rooted in the community. We have really strong ties with the schools.
KAREN DOVE This is an ideal technology for use in our rural schools especially, and I hope the government will ...
ALEX GAKURU![]()
I was sort of born into a Subud cult that has ties to Islam and Indonesia and Middle Eastern spiritu...
SUFJAN STEVENS My passion for service came from my parents, and my community involvement began at a very young age,...
JAMES COSTOS It's been a great experience for our team and our program. It really created excitement in the commu...
ROB HILBUN You know, growing up, I lived in a neighborhood in Long Island where there was basically one black f...
LORRAINE BRACCO Small schools are a wonderful thing for students and for community involvement in the schools. An el...
DAVID KERN It's parents who most commonly start charter schools. So the community gets to decide what kind of s...
PHIL ANDREWS No ordinance can protect the children of our community 100 percent. The ordinance is just one tool a...
ED OURADA JR I've always opposed vouchers, and I will continue opposing vouchers. Texas won't have the best publi...
CHRIS BELL I want to be part of the community. I look at the people paying the taxes for our schools. And I wan...
CONSTANCE COLLINS After consulting with all of the school districts in my Assembly district and talking with parents t...
BRETT DAVIS This is an achievement we will remember forever. The kids, the parents and the community are set for...
BOB VAUGHN And eventually, if the children in the two schools start to see themselves as a whole unit less (...
KATHLEEN MCCARTHY What we want to do is get the parents and kids together and taking part in math and science. Our goa...
CARRIE KNOCH Kids have a right to safe food in school, and parents have a right to know what goes on in the schoo...
CAROLINE DEWAAL Kids have a right to safe food in school, and parents have a right to know what goes on in the schoo...
CAROLINE SMITH DEWAAL I had a good extended family, ... There were several aunts and uncles who were really interested in ...
DOROTHY LAW NOLTE![]()
When my sisters and I were kids going to DC public schools, school supplies were not the big deal th...
ELEANOR HOLMES NORTON![]()
I just went to your typical public schools, and my dad would take us to the movies every week, or he...
PEDRO PASCAL When I was coaching, the kids wanted to leave private schools for the public schools so they could g...
DAN LEWIS Our community must protect basic education for its children. Today, our schools can still deliver a ...
CINDY CROWE![]()
Kids in urban and rural areas face so many challenges, and they show up at schools that don't ha...
WENDY KOPP I am a living illustration of Bosnian mixing and converting. My grandparents lived in eastern Herzeg...
EMIR KUSTURICA There were definitely curveballs in my growing up, from a family aspect. My parents got divorced whe...
TAYLOR HICKS We're looking at diversity within our own community. I feel it exposes students from both schools to...
BEVERLY LARSON![]()
The successes of the LGBT civil rights movement and the more prominent role openly gay people are pl...
DAN SAVAGE![]()
All of us -- parents, schools, communities and government -- share responsibility to keep kids safe.
BILL CLINTON![]()
Providing better computer science education in public schools to kids, and encouraging girls to part...
RYAN HOLMES Schools without Fear; Group Activities for Building Community
JUDY BROWN We reenact battles in our area, but we also do living history, enacting daily life at schools and co...
ALEX DAVIS I remember hearing stories from my mother and father about their parents and grandparents when they ...
CHASKE SPENCER![]()
When police or security personnel work in schools, they should follow the community policing model t...
RANDI WEINGARTEN I think they should leave the schools in the community. They can really bond with teachers and each ...
DEBBIE ARMSTRONG![]()
And then the conditions of safety - or lack of safety - for teachers in public schools, and the disp...
WARREN BEATTY When kids are looking at schools and judging what schools they might go to ... it's sort of a compet...
BARRY BROWN The public schools here are wonderful and we have the opportunity to keep them wonderful. That's why...
JANET BERRY One of the best ways to curb the bullying menace in our schools is by developing healthy and respect...
RAYMOND OBENG One of my main legislative efforts in education is to help expand and replicate successful charter s...
JARED POLIS![]()
In America our public schools are intended to be religiously neutral. Our teachers and schools are n...
ADAM HAMILTON![]()
Both the velodrome and the Commonwealth swimming pool are open to the public and are frequently used...
LUCY POWELL More money will definitely help with the class size amendment to build schools, hire teachers and pa...
DONNA MUTZENARD Having cameras, having security guards, all those things help to make parents and people in the comm...
LELIA DEANDRADE What upsets me most is that our children are not protected. Robert Louis Stevenson Middle School is ...
DENISE SMITH![]()
Being a working mom, you want to make a difference in our schools, which is making a difference in o...
KIMORA LEE SIMMONS![]()
Ninety-nine percent of the music that was of any interest to me when I was growing up came out of th...
DAVID SANBORN There's some perception in our community that we invest more in our newer schools. Their appearance ...
WALT BYRD We acted in the best interest of the institution, ... Our intentions were good and we didn't think w...
CARLOS RAMIREZ A letter should be going out later today, hand delivered, to all of the districts mentioned in the l...
LUANNE NELSON Growing up in Georgia, it was sort of the last place to jump on the bandwagon of the integrated fron...
ELIJAH KELLEY We have to provide good teachers, good environment, community involvement with schools.
DAVID SELBY In the old days, schools were a collection of classrooms. Today, classrooms are assembly areas; they...
DENNIS YOUNG We felt that we needed to formalize the process for naming schools. The community has an opportunity...
HARRY KINNAN The fact is you cannot have great schools without the involvement of the entire community, but this ...
JANE BURKE
CHARLES KRAMER
The public education landscape is enriched by having many options - neighborhood public schools, mag... RANDI WEINGARTEN The way to improve schools is to give parents real options by providing parents with full school cho...
ALLAN PARKER The progress is just amazing. The children are in our schools; the parents are in our community. Whe...
DEBBIE HUNT I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Little Falls Community Schools is here for the kids. We will stand up and be counted,
BRUCE ANDERSON You don't have poor schools for long if the community demands otherwise.
DR. HENRY JOHNSON
I am old enough to remember when America's K-12 public schools were the best in the world. I am ... ELI BROAD
At present, black children are more segregated in their public schools than at any time since 1968. ... JONATHAN KOZOL
Our political establishment refuses to use the word 'segregated.' They call the schools dive... JONATHAN KOZOL The public schools bring the community together and make it more vibrant. I feel that this is an exc...
ELAINE HANRATTY More and more states are looking at voucher programs, or trying to organize public schools on a priv...
CHRIS LUBIENSKI
In my wildest imagination, I never thought that the fifth of six children born to Helen and Buddy Wa... J. C. WATTS No one community is immune to it. We try to be vigilant and on top of our responsibilities. Fire, po...
BRIAN CALLAGHAN This year the focus is on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi and Louisiana to donate money and resources ...
BEVERLY BRAHAN I think the black community is no different from any other community. We need to take responsibility...
PEARL CLEAGE
Jim Crow laws stripped blacks of basic rights. Despite landmark civil rights laws, many public schoo... BOB BECKEL We were going to exclude kids from the state and public forum debate if we stayed with intelligent d...
BOB HETLER That concept has not caught on in Las Vegas. The schools need to focus on giving kids better hands-o...
BILL WERKSMAN California's charter schools continue to be at the forefront of successful public education reform; ...
CAPRICE YOUNG The idea of community and helping others has always been a part of who I am. Growing up, my parents ...
BLAKE MYCOSKIE The segregated schools of today are arguably no more equal than the segregated schools of the past.
ED MARKEY Many of these individuals and families may well decide to become our neighbors, ... We need to welco...
CHARLES FARMER In general, the private schools tend to play at a higher level than the public schools, which is dif...
PATRICK ALVIN Both ... served our schools for many years. Both were role models for our youths and well liked by o...
ALEXANDER GARDNER
Art shouldn't be prohibited in public schools when kids in private schools always get it. AGNES GUND Where we grew up was rural country. It was a good community, mostly church-going farmers. We enjoyed...
EDYTHE SCOTT BAGLEY When my mom, Mercedes, and her younger sister, Juanita, first came from Puerto Rico, they were the y...
KIMBERLY GUILFOYLE
It appears that some school officials, teachers, and parents have assumed that religious expression ... BILL CLINTON Parents raise hell and refuse to send their kids to classrooms infested with asbestos. Yet every day...
JOSEPH CALIFANO During my childhood, Washington was a segregated city, and I lived in the midst of a poor black neig...
IRVIN D. YALOM We go to high schools and give students the opportunity to earn community service hours. They end up...
GARRY DAIGLER
It's easy to blame the nature-deficit disorder on the kids' or the parents' back, but th... RICHARD LOUV For their safety and the safety of the community as a whole we transported the students to their sch...
FRED MURPHY Our high schools are critical to the success of our community. Restructuring is critical. We need to...
BOB LOVINGOOD We have an issue with closing our school, ... We're trying to draw families into our community, and ...
BOB GRAY This is not about embarrassing people who are not a threat. Our top concern has to be the kids that ...
JASON BREWER We are a community of layers of generations. In 1990, my parents were still in the house where I gre...
LANA HALL We're doing this for the kids. We're an independent group of community and business leaders, coaches...
JASON DEMARCO
Our nation's oldest sin and deepest crime is the isolation of minority children - black children... JONATHAN KOZOL
Ninety years after slavery, blacks were still segregated from whites. They still had separate drinki... BENJAMIN WATSON I grew up going to public school, and they were huge public schools. I went to a school that had 3,2...
P. J. O'ROURKE We always welcome the community in our district, but this week in particular, we invite the people t...
DR. JAMES WILCOX By making transportation more convenient for our parents by reducing the threshold from a mile to th...
JANET WALSH We've always partnered with the schools. They are the anchors of the community.
TONY IORIO It's very important for the real estate community, as well, to have good schools. Overall, you might...
DENIS HANKS The club here is really rooted in the community. We have really strong ties with the schools.
KAREN DOVE This is an ideal technology for use in our rural schools especially, and I hope the government will ...
ALEX GAKURU
I was sort of born into a Subud cult that has ties to Islam and Indonesia and Middle Eastern spiritu... SUFJAN STEVENS My passion for service came from my parents, and my community involvement began at a very young age,...
JAMES COSTOS It's been a great experience for our team and our program. It really created excitement in the commu...
ROB HILBUN You know, growing up, I lived in a neighborhood in Long Island where there was basically one black f...
LORRAINE BRACCO Small schools are a wonderful thing for students and for community involvement in the schools. An el...
DAVID KERN It's parents who most commonly start charter schools. So the community gets to decide what kind of s...
PHIL ANDREWS No ordinance can protect the children of our community 100 percent. The ordinance is just one tool a...
ED OURADA JR I've always opposed vouchers, and I will continue opposing vouchers. Texas won't have the best publi...
CHRIS BELL I want to be part of the community. I look at the people paying the taxes for our schools. And I wan...
CONSTANCE COLLINS After consulting with all of the school districts in my Assembly district and talking with parents t...
BRETT DAVIS This is an achievement we will remember forever. The kids, the parents and the community are set for...
BOB VAUGHN And eventually, if the children in the two schools start to see themselves as a whole unit less (...
KATHLEEN MCCARTHY What we want to do is get the parents and kids together and taking part in math and science. Our goa...
CARRIE KNOCH Kids have a right to safe food in school, and parents have a right to know what goes on in the schoo...
CAROLINE DEWAAL Kids have a right to safe food in school, and parents have a right to know what goes on in the schoo...
CAROLINE SMITH DEWAAL I had a good extended family, ... There were several aunts and uncles who were really interested in ...
DOROTHY LAW NOLTE
When my sisters and I were kids going to DC public schools, school supplies were not the big deal th... ELEANOR HOLMES NORTON
I just went to your typical public schools, and my dad would take us to the movies every week, or he... PEDRO PASCAL When I was coaching, the kids wanted to leave private schools for the public schools so they could g...
DAN LEWIS Our community must protect basic education for its children. Today, our schools can still deliver a ...
CINDY CROWE
Kids in urban and rural areas face so many challenges, and they show up at schools that don't ha... WENDY KOPP I am a living illustration of Bosnian mixing and converting. My grandparents lived in eastern Herzeg...
EMIR KUSTURICA There were definitely curveballs in my growing up, from a family aspect. My parents got divorced whe...
TAYLOR HICKS We're looking at diversity within our own community. I feel it exposes students from both schools to...
BEVERLY LARSON
The successes of the LGBT civil rights movement and the more prominent role openly gay people are pl... DAN SAVAGE
All of us -- parents, schools, communities and government -- share responsibility to keep kids safe. BILL CLINTON
Providing better computer science education in public schools to kids, and encouraging girls to part... RYAN HOLMES Schools without Fear; Group Activities for Building Community
JUDY BROWN We reenact battles in our area, but we also do living history, enacting daily life at schools and co...
ALEX DAVIS I remember hearing stories from my mother and father about their parents and grandparents when they ...
CHASKE SPENCER
When police or security personnel work in schools, they should follow the community policing model t... RANDI WEINGARTEN I think they should leave the schools in the community. They can really bond with teachers and each ...
DEBBIE ARMSTRONG
And then the conditions of safety - or lack of safety - for teachers in public schools, and the disp... WARREN BEATTY When kids are looking at schools and judging what schools they might go to ... it's sort of a compet...
BARRY BROWN The public schools here are wonderful and we have the opportunity to keep them wonderful. That's why...
JANET BERRY One of the best ways to curb the bullying menace in our schools is by developing healthy and respect...
RAYMOND OBENG One of my main legislative efforts in education is to help expand and replicate successful charter s...
JARED POLIS
In America our public schools are intended to be religiously neutral. Our teachers and schools are n... ADAM HAMILTON
Both the velodrome and the Commonwealth swimming pool are open to the public and are frequently used... LUCY POWELL More money will definitely help with the class size amendment to build schools, hire teachers and pa...
DONNA MUTZENARD Having cameras, having security guards, all those things help to make parents and people in the comm...
LELIA DEANDRADE What upsets me most is that our children are not protected. Robert Louis Stevenson Middle School is ...
DENISE SMITH
Being a working mom, you want to make a difference in our schools, which is making a difference in o... KIMORA LEE SIMMONS
Ninety-nine percent of the music that was of any interest to me when I was growing up came out of th... DAVID SANBORN There's some perception in our community that we invest more in our newer schools. Their appearance ...
WALT BYRD We acted in the best interest of the institution, ... Our intentions were good and we didn't think w...
CARLOS RAMIREZ A letter should be going out later today, hand delivered, to all of the districts mentioned in the l...
LUANNE NELSON Growing up in Georgia, it was sort of the last place to jump on the bandwagon of the integrated fron...
ELIJAH KELLEY We have to provide good teachers, good environment, community involvement with schools.
DAVID SELBY In the old days, schools were a collection of classrooms. Today, classrooms are assembly areas; they...
DENNIS YOUNG We felt that we needed to formalize the process for naming schools. The community has an opportunity...
HARRY KINNAN The fact is you cannot have great schools without the involvement of the entire community, but this ...
JANE BURKE
You get in before sunrise and you get out after sunset and you go home, eat and collapse. While you&... 
If it seems like you're doing work when you're acting, then you're doing something wrong... 
I remember the day I found out my draft status. I was really floored and kind of staggered around in... 
It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts! 
I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance. 
I never thought I would get to have my own action figure. 
Actors then were just louts, hangabouts and wandering troubadours doing traveling plays, 