Issue Position: Education

Issue Position

Greater local control of schools -- decentralize it - let parents, school boards, teachers, and administrators, handle it -- they are capable -- let's support them -- unhook Iowa from the Common Core system of federal and state control over our schools - Supported:
2017 & 2018 flexibility for schools in use of K-12 funding
2017 "Home Rule" for K-12 schools
2018 & 2020 - Expanded options for online learning
Unhooking from Common Core, Next Generation Science Standards, and C3 Social Studies standards

Cut regulations -- keep freedom and stop strangling school districts and school teachers -- let the teachers teach -- cut the paperwork

Promote parental involvement -- shift more responsibility back on the parents where it belongs

Increase educational opportunities and innovations by expanding educational choices - Supported:
2018 529 plans for K-12 tuition
2019 - raised program cap for STO's and allowed more students to become eligible

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