#public school

At present, black children are more segregated in their public schools than at any time since 1968. In the inner-city schools I visit, minority children typically represent 95 percent to 99 percent of class enrollment. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

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During the decades after Brown v. Board of Education there was terrific progress. Tens of thousands of public schools were integrated racially. During that time the gap between black and white achievement narrowed. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

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Me, I was waiting tables of 13 and married at 19. I graduated from public schools, and taught elementary school. ↗

— Elizabeth Warren

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I'm a very big public school advocate. ↗

— Cynthia Nixon

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If you make the decision to send your kid to public school don't even look at private schools. Just shut the door. Just turn off the TV. And then you don't even have to worry about preschool. You have to worry about what's good for your kid, but you don't have to worry about how to position yourself. ↗

— Cynthia Nixon

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Our public school system is our country's biggest and most inefficient monopoly, yet it keeps demanding more and more money. ↗

— Phyllis Schlafly

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Another example of the educational inequality is the current debate over publicly financed school vouchers which will provide educational opportunities to a privileged handful, but deprive public schools of desperately needed resources. ↗

— Bobby Scott

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I went to public school up until junior high. ↗

— Kristen Stewart

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I believe there ought to be school choice, so that parents can choose within the public school system. ↗

— William H. Gray

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When I was sent to public school, I was relieved that I could wear what I wanted to wear. ↗

— Davey Havok

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