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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.

Quote by Warren Beatty about safety, public, teachers

Charter schools are public schools that operate, to a certain extent, outside the system. They have more control over their teachers, curriculum and resources. They also have less money than public schools.

Quote by Maggie Gallagher about public, teachers, money

Catholic schools in our Nation's education have been...

Catholic schools in our Nation's education have been paramount in teaching the values that we as parents seek to instill in our children.

Quote by Joe Baca about teaching, parents, education, nation, children

We cannot blame the schools alone for the dismal decline in SAT verbal scores. When our kids come home from school do they pick up a book or do they sit glued to the tube, watching music videos? Parents, don't make the mistake of thinking your kid...

Quote by George W. Bush about decline, mistake, parents, thinking, school, home, music

A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools...

A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

Quote by George Gordon Byron about opinion, architecture, painting, poetry, man

I have a Web site that parents and girls can use to learn about Title IX and take action if they find their school is not in compliance. Thirty years after Title IX passed, 80 percent of schools are not in compliance.

Quote by Geena Davis about parents, action, school, use

The intense campaigns against domestic violence, rape, sexual harassment, and inequity in the schools all too often depend on an image of women as weak and victimized.

Quote by Katherine Dunn about violence, sex

I'd go to, like, six different schools in one year. We...

I'd go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked.

Quote by Eminem

Charter schools have a far higher proportion of teachers...

Charter schools have a far higher proportion of teachers who are not certified.

Quote by Maggie Gallagher about teachers

Meanwhile, parents, students and teachers all report higher satisfaction with charter schools. People like them. They cost less money. They raise the academic achievement of poor kids. Go ahead, get a little enthused.

Quote by Maggie Gallagher about teachers, students, parents, money, people

The strongest results were in Florida and Texas. In just one year in a Texas charter school, an average student gained 7 percentile points in math and 8 percentile points in reading, while Florida charter schools improved student performance by 6...

Quote by Maggie Gallagher about students, mathematics, school

Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it...

Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

Quote by James Joyce about pleasure, art, magic

New students come from schools that do not teach anything.

New students come from schools that do not teach anything.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about students, education

The relationships that people have that are sexual, psychological, emotional these relationships are not open to supervision by parents, schools, churches, or government. Nobody has any right to intervene at all in any kind of relationship like that.

Quote by Madalyn Murray O'Hair about opinion, parents, sex, rightness, people

I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.

Quote by Walt Whitman about democracy, past, art, magic

Language is political. That's why you and me, my Brother and Sister, that's why we supposed to choke our natural self into the weird, lying, barbarous, unreal, white speech and writing habits that the schools lay down like holy law.

Quote by June Jordan about language, lie, habits, law, self-control, writing, contentment

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