Issue Position: Schools

Issue Position

Missouri's fine schools provide a forum for the acquisition of specific and relevant knowledge, for the exchange of ideas and philosophies, for the impartation of a wide array of life skills, and for community socialization and cohesion. The wide array of public, charter, private, parochial, and home school cooperatives provide the degree of choice necessary to allow parents to readily find a venue best suited to their particular family's needs. We must be diligent to guard, protect, and never cease to fine tune and develop an ever-improving educational complex for the state of Missouri.

Possible Initiatives:

Competition and choice. Choice and competition are great motivators. Continued development of these can only enhance our education system.

Parental control. Since parental authority and choice in the education of their children is paramount, educational savings accounts (ESA) would be a possible initiative to develop and enhance such control.

Cultural adulation of our educators. Initiatives to enhance our teachers' status among the ranks of Missouri professionals are essential.

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