Issue Position: Education

Issue Position

Our schools are failing our kids. Our public education system has ranked in the bottom 5 in the nation and has consistently been leaving kids behind. We need to invest in career and technical education that will provide opportunities to succeed by giving students hands-on skills our economy desperately needs. We need innovative ways of making sure the money we spend on education gets to where it needs to be: our teachers and kids. Where does local business step in to help where the state has failed? What are ideas our teachers have? How do we get our most vulnerable populations reading sooner? Are there nonprofit organizations focusing on these issues that need more support? I will be asking these questions, and I will make sure the important stakeholders are part of the answer - local business, teachers, and those organizations that are trying to make a difference. As I speak directly to teachers, they say the number of students in the classroom matters; and it matters when talking about emotional support and behavioral problems in the classroom. Our goals in "education" should be just that: figuring out how we can better educate our children -- I think we can all agree on that.

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