Issue Position: Education

Issue Position

Educating our children is some of the most important work we will do in our lives. Who better understands the needs of our children than the parents, teachers and government leaders who live and work in the communities where our children grow up? Keeping education as local an issue as possible makes sense.

I believe the federal government has a role to play in education, but the Department of Education should not exist to pass down standards that are one size fits all. Instead, the federal government should be a resource for states as they craft policy that works for them. Here in Tennessee, we have rejected common core and I will fight to be sure such policies are kept out of our state.

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