Adam Cohen
Adam Cohen

There was a rule, back when I was an education lawyer in Alabama, about visiting public schools: always go on a rainy day so you can see how badly the roofs leak.

Adam Hamilton
Adam Hamilton

In America our public schools are intended to be religiously neutral. Our teachers and schools are neither to endorse nor to inhibit religion. I believe this is a very good thing.

Agnes Gund
Agnes Gund

Art shouldn't be prohibited in public schools when kids in private schools always get it.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Public schools in the late '80s and early '90s were a total mess... we felt that if I was going to have a good educational option in my life, I would have to go to a public school district that actually served its children.

Alice Waters
Alice Waters

It's so important to that we go into the public schools and we feed all of the kids something that is really good for them.

Alissa Quart
Alissa Quart

Uber is hardly the first company to exploit the financial vulnerability of teachers - and the desperation of public schools more broadly - to score PR points. Amazon, Boeing, Bank of America, and other corporations have played the part of school benefactor, offering everything from reward programs to school supplies.

Alissa Quart
Alissa Quart

'Middle class' used to mean having two children and sending them to high-quality public schools, or even occasionally to private schools. It meant new brown Stride Rite Mary Janes with little purple and silver flowers when the old shoes were pinching the toes.

Alissa Quart
Alissa Quart

On the surface, public schools can seem egalitarian, especially with their websites' emphasis on words such as 'connection,' 'community,' and 'choice.' Yet despite this democratic vocabulary, money makes a big difference.

Ami Bera
Ami Bera

I was born and raised in California and benefited from California's excellent public schools, from kindergarten through medical school.

Amity Shlaes
Amity Shlaes

With demands for special education or standardized test prep being shouted in their ears, public schools can't always hear a parent when he says: 'I want my child to be able to write contracts in Spanish,' or, 'I want my child to shake hands firmly,' or, 'I want my child to study statistics and accounting, not calculus.'