Edward Kennedy Schools Quotations

When you talk about security and safety in schools, most of us have historically looked at smaller class sizes, after-school programs, and better trained teachers, but part of this whole thing is having schools free from easy accessibility to guns,

My own position is I don't think we ought to abandon schools by taking money away from public schools in order to save them. And that's been my position for some period of time,

Instead of reopening ideological battles, we should be focused on reopening schools and getting people the help they need.

You can't separate safety and security in schools from the issue of the availability and the accessibility of guns. The public understands that school violence prevention is a complex issue. The American people are increasingly demanding that we take action.