Issue Position: Improve Education

Issue Position

I believe that our schools must be centers of learning excellence where we prepare our students not only for future employment, but to become productive, contributing citizens of our State and Nation. We cannot achieve excellence by simply spending more money on the status quo; we must reform education to develop a passion for learning in our students. In the NC Senate I will continue working hard to improve our education system by giving parents more control and more choice in educating their children, rewarding the success of outstanding teachers, and holding schools accountable for academic results. We must ensure that our children are proficient in reading by the third grade, increase our high school graduation rates, and make sure that college bound high school graduates don't have to take remedial courses to compete on the college level. Our students are the future of North Carolina, and we must provide them with the academic and vocational skills they need to be successful.

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