Chris Bell Schools Quotations

If Rick Perry gets his way in Austin, schools in Beaumont and across Texas will suffer.

I've always opposed vouchers, and I will continue opposing vouchers. Texas won't have the best public schools in the country if we're raiding their funding to send kids to private schools.

High-stakes testing has basically guided the curriculum in public schools all across the state of Texas and has left us with the highest drop out rate in the entire country -- around 40 percent.

Having the best public schools in the country within the next 10 years will require putting the schools back in public school finance reform.