Issue Position: Education

Issue Position

As a founding board member for MOT Charter, a participant in Junior Achievement, a youth football volunteer, Kevin has always been at the forefront when it comes to our young people and particularly education issues.

He understands the special needs in our community for education that produced students that can succeed college or in the real world of business.

His experience as a board member of the Appoquinimink School District has given him the insight to legislation affecting education in Dover.

One important bill consider in Dover this session involved the right of parents to decide whether their children should be required to take excessive standard testing.

The bill gave parents the right to OPT OUT their children for certain testing. After much debate and many public hearing the bill was passed by the House (I voted for it) and the Senate.

Unfortunately, Governor Markell decided to veto the bill.

We were not given the opportunity to vote on overriding this veto. I would have supported that override.

WHY? In an attempt to improve our education system the "experts" have called for more testing and standards to determine if our system works

Has this entire data gathering really improved the system so that our kids are learning more? I don't believe so.
Should parents have a say in this process? I definitely think so.

As a member of the Education Committee in the House, Kevin will continue to bring his knowledge and commitment to solving our problems in the schools by first addressing the needs of our children. Our children face a world that requires different skills. We must have an education system with the flexibility to assure that our children learn the skills needed to compete.

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