Michael Kirst Quotations

We knew that supply will go down of college-educated and technically educated students from the community colleges. 'But we didn't know that the demand is going up.

We found that unless state funding formulas change and charters can hire more experienced teachers, then they can't effect the change they were created for.

The state's labor force will depend increasingly on Latinos. The low college entry and completion rate of these pupils is really a concern.

It is really puzzling because we have grade-by-grade content standards in both reading and mathematics. But it appears that these are only paying off for mathematics. This really calls for a deeper exploration into why mathematics is doing so much better.

This is a very complementary study and points out that there will be a demand dimension, in addition to the supply problem that we've already seen.

Charter schools haven't been around long enough and don't serve a large enough part of the population to know their long-term effect. We still can't tell if traditional public schools will rise to the challenge or be further dragged down.