Chris Gabrieli

An actual understanding of our economy is that our economy most depends on our rate of innovation... It's not actually understood by most of the people running for office, but it's not in fact disputed. ”

The Expanded Learning Time program is a voluntary one - only districts and schools that want to apply are in the program and supported by the state to pursue their plans. ”

There are very few people who have had as much public impact as I've already had... without being elected to public office in Massachusetts. ”

Athletics and physical activity are important parts of youth development, in my experience and view. ”

I understand fully that jobs are created by the private sector, having been all my life in the private sector, but I don't buy the argument that the state has no role to play. ”

Small business is crucial. I think we talk so much about large businesses, they're well represented; they talk well for themselves. But most people work for small businesses; most wealth that stays in a community gets generated from them. ”

I realized I didn't need to go to work every day. I could work for the pleasure and the challenge, not for the mortgage payment. ”

I've spent enough time in the business community to know there are certain regulators who are very constructive in their approach - those who enforce the laws and who actually want to help you comply - and there are others who have a prosecutorial attitude. ”

I do not believe you have to be an elected official to help 'change the world.' In fact, maybe it is easier from the outside. ”

Indeed, while so much in education reform can divide activists into warring camps, expanding learning time unites reformers around a shared vision of bringing excellence and breadth to our nation's most impoverished and struggling schools. ”