Issue Position: Education

Issue Position

In our district, one-in-five people live in poverty. That's unacceptable. I know firsthand that there is no better antidote to poverty than access to a quality public school education. As a graduate of Georgia's public school system, and the first in my family to attend college, I'll work hard to ensure that our teachers and our children have the resources they need to succeed.

In the legislature, I fought to protect and expand the HOPE Scholarship and introduced legislation that enabled more than 5,500 students to return to technical colleges all across the state. I also voted to establish training requirements for school resource officers to ensure that our students have the safest learning environment possible.

As your representative, I'll fight to surround our K-12 students with the people and resources they need to succeed. That means supporting teachers and advocating for smaller class sizes and additional counseling resources. I'll also fight to raise salaries for our public school teachers and to give them more flexibility and freedom in testing, so that our state will become the best place to recruit, train and retain the most talented educators.

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