Issue Position: Education

Issue Position

We must invest in our schools to provide students, teachers, and parents with the support they need. Since the recession, our state has prioritized tax breaks for large corporations over educating the next generation. Every election year, politicians promise that they will outmaneuver other jurisdictions to extract more school funding and, every year, they come up short. It's unacceptable that there are nearly 50 trailers being used as classrooms in District 19's elementary schools. Meanwhile, thousands of Marylanders cannot afford higher education, and thousands more graduate every year with a mountain of student loan debt. It's time to make large corporations and the wealthiest few pay their fair share in order to:

Expand pre-K to all three- and four-year olds;
Reduce class sizes and build enough classroom space to keep pace with enrollment;
Offer competitive salaries to attract and retain highly qualified teachers; and
Create a path for in-state students to pay little or no tuition at public universities, community colleges, and vocational schools.

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