A Quote by Diane Ravitch

I support charters, but the right kind of charters. I support charters that support kids who have the highest needs. A charter should be targeting students who are in serious trouble. It should serve students who didn't succeed in public schools when it can help them. Or, at least, charters should agree to accept similar proportions of the kids with the highest needs.

Diane Ravitch

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Diane Ravitch
American - Historian
Born: 1938

If Boston charters can be stymied despite their extraordinary success, charters anywhere can be stopped.

Campbell Brown

Support charters; insist on change for failing schools.

Newt Gingrich

The citizens of the United States have peculiar motives to support the energy of their constitutional charters.

James Madison

If charter schools are not more successful on average than the public schools they replace, what is accomplished by demolishing public education? What is the rationale for authorizing for-profit charters or charter management organizations with high-paid executives, since their profits and high salaries are paid by taxpayers' dollars?

Diane Ravitch

In Europe, charters of liberty have been granted by power. America has set the example . . . of charters of power granted by liberty. This revolution in the practice of the world, may, with an honest praise, be pronounced the most triumphant epoch of its history, and the most consoling presage of its happiness.

James Madison

In Europe, charters of liberty have been granted by Power. In America ... charters of power [are] granted by liberty.

James Madison

There are essential elements for our public schools to fully develop the potential of both students and educators. They should be centers of community, where students, families and educators work together to support student success. They should foster collaboration.

Randi Weingarten

One should never risk a joke, even of the mildest and most unexceptional charters, except among people of culture and wit.

Jean de la Bruyere

We should totally ban for-profit charters. For-profit's first obligation is to its stockholders, not to its children.

Diane Ravitch

The push to defund public schools and reroute taxpayer money to charters and private institutions is actually a very clever strategy by the Right Wing, which has always had a great deal of disdain for a system that forces them to pay taxes toward some other kid's non-religious, science-based education.

Ana Kasparian

Charters give public school teachers the flexibility to design programs to the individual student needs. They no longer have to go to a distant bureaucracy to ask for permission. By being allowed to make their own decisions the teachers are able to create strong partnerships with parents.

Gary Larson

Then we have a World Run, where representatives from all the charters meet.

Chuck Zito

There's probably about 150 charters in the world. We're the biggest international club there is.

Chuck Zito

Working-class students more often lack the advice, guidance and support needed to navigate the tricky application process, whereas their wealthy peers at top public schools have admissions tutors to help their students game the system.