Issue Position: On Education

Issue Position

Issue Position: On Education

Every child must have access to quality education. The youth are our future, and in order to compete globally we must keep pace with educational systems around the world. Sadly, we are falling behind.

The surest way to take back control and to advance our educational system is to reduce government involvement while empowering parents at the same time. Parents have been guiding the education of their children for thousands of years. They are more responsive and better equipped to understand the needs of their own. The federal government has slowly replaced the key role of parents, and this trend must be recognized, stopped and reversed.

By restoring control to parents, we can:

Return federal education money to the states and allow parents to decide the best educational system for their children. This is the only way to foster competition, recognize and reward successful programs, cut administrative waste and improve results without arbitrary government mandates;

-Streamline current federal programs to make them more responsive and efficient;
-Provide incentives to schools that emphasize science and math proficiency;
-Explore the means to promote academic excellence without bureaucratic restrictions; and
-Increase federal scholarships for degrees in science, math, engineering and other emerging areas of world competition.

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