Issue Position: Put Educators in Charge

Issue Position

Education dollars should fund the education of each child, not fund an education bureaucracy or system of schools. The legislature should make sure schools have the resources to provide a quality education for every child. Then set schools, principals, teachers, and parents free to choose, innovate, and excel.

Too much of what goes on in schools is dictated by politicians in Washington, D.C. and Salt Lake City, when it should be decided by local parents and schools. The larger the role that politicians and government play in classrooms, the smaller the influence of teachers and parents. Families and educators need to have the greatest influence in schools--not bureaucrats. Instead of micromanaging the education of our children we need to take the handcuffs off of parents, local principals and educators and let them innovate, provide options and choices to parents, and provide a high quality education for every child.

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