Chris Bell Schools Quotations

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

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.

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

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.