Eva Moskowitz Quotes
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Part of me would love to be mayor for the simple reason that I love my city.
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I love working with teachers and principals; they are my heroes. They are very dedicated to children, and it's very impactful.
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Self-delusion is rarely a good strategy for effective management.
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In New York City, the idea that district schools advance equality is a myth.
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Whatever you think rigor looks like, you should go up a few notches.
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If student A 'impacts' student B with a fist, they shouldn't 'dialogue as equals.' Student A should be disciplined. When you assault your co-worker or curse out your boss, you don't get a 'restorative circle' - you get fired.
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Attacking school segregation requires all hands on deck. We in the charter sector must move beyond our traditional comfort zone, serving disadvantaged students, and meet the demands of parents who have other high quality options.
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Rule number one of journalism is that trying to get in between a journalist and a story he wants to tell is like trying to stop a herd of stampeding cattle.
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If the day ever comes when I think something is okay simply because district schools do it, I hope my board fires me.
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I'm very, very focused on not only creating world class schools at scale, but changing the public policy in this country that every day prevents children from getting access to the American dream.
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I believe education is a bipartisan issue, and I intend to support those educational policies of President Trump with which I agree.
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Any elected official who asks to visit my schools is welcome to do so; there is no political litmus test.
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I wouldn't be educating children if I did not believe in human potential.
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Excellence is the accumulation of hundreds of minute decisions; it is execution at the most granular level. Once you accept the idea that you should give in to things that make no sense because other people do those things and you want to appear reasonable, you are on a path towards mediocrity.
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I've never believed the charter movement was exclusively for socially and economically disadvantaged kids.
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I assure you: If I were to hear a teacher raise a voice at a kid or anything, that goes against the model, and I would immediately address it.
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Suspensions convey the critical message to students and parents that certain behavior is inconsistent with being a member of the school community. Pretend suspensions, in which a student is allowed to remain in the school community, do not convey that message.
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I am a Democrat and disagree with virtually all of President Trump's policy positions, including those on healthcare, LGBTQ rights, civil rights, immigration, global warming, gun control, and tax 'reform.'
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I am from an F.D.R. liberal-Democratic family. With proximity to government, I have become more libertarian.
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I believe Betsy DeVos has the talent, commitment, and leadership capacity to revitalize our public schools and deliver the promise of opportunity that excellent education provides, and I support her nomination as U.S. Secretary of Education.
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It is very challenging to have a kind of data-driven, performance-oriented culture and to do progressive pedagogy. These things don't naturally, or easily, go together.
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Like so many of you, I am deeply distressed both by the hateful violence in Charlottesville and by President Trump's refusal to clearly denounce it. Nobody with any empathy for the plight of people of color in this country could respond the way he did.
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To me, that is really fundamental to social justice: to have choices in life.
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Schools can ebb and flow. It can be phenomenal one day, and then you hit fractions, and it falls apart.