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I went to regular schools and I was home schooled a lot but I don't have any history in schools. Like, I literally don't exist. I didn't even get a birth certificate until the mid-80s. I always feel like I could be, like, 10 years younger, or maybe I'm 70!
Rose McGowan

Home, History, Until

Progress for black Americans depends on good schools because education is the last great equalizer.
Alphonso Jackson

Education, Good, Great

They take pride in their schools. They begin to participate, where, when they are renters, they don't do that. So what we're doing by this program is strengthening America.
Alphonso Jackson

America, Pride, Begin

We changed the names of our technical schools to colleges, we expanded the eligibility for HOPE scholarships for technical training, and we added some formula funding.
Roy Barnes

Hope, Training, Changed

The time has come to end social promotion in our schools.
Roy Barnes

Time, End, Social

While visiting Costa Rica, I was inspired to hear that someone had donated a playground to a local school. So when I returned to L.A., one day I just called the principal of a nearby elementary school and asked what I could do. Five years later, I've helped make over nine schools, repainting, renovating, and fixing up playgrounds.
Cheryl Hines

School, Someone, While

Well, I am producing a show that's going to be on NBC this fall. It's called 'School Pride,' and it's a reality show where we're going around the country and renovating schools. It's really great.
Cheryl Hines

Great, School, Reality

Mr. Speaker, less than 10 percent of our Nation's children walk or ride their bicycles to school, and too many schools continue to invite fast-food vendors into their cafeterias.
Lois Capps

School, Children, Nation

It was the courts, of course, that took away prayer from our schools, that took away Bible reading from our schools. It's the courts that gave us same-sex marriage. So it is quite a battlefield, and the Supreme Court is the highest court in the land.
Rod Parsley

Marriage, Away, Prayer

The things you leave school knowing - some dates and long division - so much of it has been of no use to me. Schools should teach the basics of cookery, first aid, how to look after your money and how to speak foreign languages. Useful things.
Jane Asher

Money, School, Long

There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism.
Robert M. Hutchins

Criticism, Trade, Centers

At a moderate calculation, among a million of persons inhabiting the metropolis, there are, at least, twenty-five thousand children who attend these schools, and cost their parents as many pounds sterling, per annum.
Joseph Lancaster

Children, Parents, Among

Female schools might be comprised in the list of those worthy the public patronage, with great propriety.
Joseph Lancaster

Great, Public, Might

Arizona is a national leader in school choice with both charter schools and tuition tax credits giving parents and their children more school choices than ever before.
Jane D. Hull

School, Children, Parents

Before this government came to power, many failing schools were simply allowed to drift on in a pattern of continuing failure. The government is determined to break that pattern and is successfully doing so.
Estelle Morris

Power, Government, Failure

I taught for 17 years in an inner city comprehensive schools.
Estelle Morris

City, Taught, Inner

OFSTED has made large cuts in the paperwork which schools are asked to provide and further steps to reduce the bureaucratic burden will be introduced in September.
Estelle Morris

Made, Large, Asked

There is a shortage of teachers but the January 2001 schools census showed that teacher numbers were at their highest level than at any time since 1984 - and 11,000 higher than 1997.
Estelle Morris

Time, Teacher, Since

The need for improved technical support in schools has expanded as the Government and schools have increased their investment in information and communications technologies.
Estelle Morris

Government, Support, Investment

My Department has already recognised this and has been working specifically on the technical support issue since January and will offer advice to schools during the Autumn term.
Estelle Morris

Working, Advice, Support

By creating useful job descriptions and making clear what qualifications should be expected, the Department aims to help improve schools' ability to recruit the right people.
Estelle Morris

Help, Job, Making

Headteachers and governing bodies run schools and that won't change.
Estelle Morris

Change, Won, Run

Our public schools began as ministries of the church; now it is time to return them to the Lord.
Jay Alan Sekulow

Time, Lord, Public

This legislation gives parents some comfort that their children won't fall prey to child predators while using the Internet at schools and libraries that receive federal dollars for Internet services.
Judy Biggert

Children, Parents, Child

Before the eighth grade, I probably went to seven or eight different schools.
Jeremy London

Different, Before, Seven

I'm for prayer in schools.
Charles Evers

We could say that people who eat grits, listen to country music, follow stock-car racing, support corporal punishment in the schools, hunt 'possum, go to Baptist churches and prefer bourbon to Scotch are likely to be Southerners.
John Shelton Reed

Music, Country, Support

I went to public schools, and while Gary was, like most American cities, racially segregated, it was at least socially integrated - a cross section of children from families of all walks of life.
Joseph Stiglitz

Life, Children, American

We were the first urban school system in the country to wire all of our schools for the Internet.
Thomas Menino

School, Country, System

One of our key strategies has been to restructure traditional high schools into small learning communities with personalized attention and a range of options.
Thomas Menino

Learning, Small, Attention

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