Betsy DeVos Quotes
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Teaching is hard. It takes a lot of skill. Not everyone who tries can do it well. We need to admit that and act accordingly. We should reward and respect great teachers by paying them more, and we should stop rewarding seniority over effectiveness.
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I will not be conflicted. Period. I commit that to you all.
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If politicians in a state block education choice, it means those politicians do not support equal opportunity for all kids.
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When governors such as John Engler, Mike Huckabee, and Mike Pence were driving the conversation on voluntary high standards driven by local voices, it all made sense.
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I don't think Donald Trump represents the Republican Party... I think more and more people are going to realize that they really don't trust him.
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Too many children today are trapped in schools that don't work for them.
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Government tends to stifle innovation, and it abhors improvisation. Any good military strategist will tell you that a battle plan rarely survives past the first engagement. After that, you have to improvise to survive and to win.
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The natural instinct is to join in the chorus of conflict, to make your voice louder, your point bigger, and your position stronger. But we will not solve the significant and real problems our country faces if we cannot bring ourselves to embrace a mindset of grace.
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Dick and I became increasingly committed to helping other parents - parents from low-income families in particular.
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We'll be examining and auditing and reviewing all of the programs of the department and really figuring out what is the core mission and how can the federal department of education really support and enhance the role of the departments in the states.
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I would imagine that there’s probably a gun in the school to protect from potential grizzlies.
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Discrimination in any form is wrong. I don't support discrimination in any form.
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We won't accomplish our goals by creating a new federal bureaucracy or by bribing states with their own taxpayers' money.
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There are not enough philanthropic dollars in America to fund what is currently the need in education.
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If you can't get cell phone service in your living room, then your particular provider is failing you. You should have the option to find a network that does work.
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Our nation's commitment is to provide a quality education to every child to serve the public common good. Accordingly, we must shift the paradigm to think of education funding as investments made in individual children, not in institutions or buildings.
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Government tends to believe in top-down solutions, and government fears of bottom-up solutions.
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Government likes committees... a lot. Committees kill all the really good ideas and generally all the really bad ideas. They produce middle-ground mush.
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We're not proposing any shifting of funding from public schools to private schools.
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Let me say, I fully embrace equality, and I believe in the innate value of every single human being and that all students, no matter their age, should be able to attend a school and feel safe and be free of discrimination.
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I can now video chat with my grandkids from any corner of the world, listen to music, or order food and have it delivered to my front door.
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We, as a society, will benefit from the interest young people show beginning at first, second, and third grades. As a result, there's great promise in the future.
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As we know, lots of people working together to solve problems doesn't happen often enough, particularly here in Washington.
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Social justice and economics are both issues to me.