Issue Position: Education

Issue Position

I am both the husband of and a grandson of a teacher. I have seen members of my family willingly and passionately sacrifice their time and personal finances to equip their classrooms with supplies and materials needed to further the education of the children in their communities.

I wholeheartedly support teachers and para-professionals, and believe they, along with all State employees, deserve a pay increase. However, with that said, I do not believe raising taxes is the answer to the problem. What I see is a mismanagement and misappropriation of already existing educational funds. I believe we need to tighten the reigns on those responsible for allocating already existing funds and force them to re-direct that money back toward their original purpose, that is to purchase educational supplies for our classrooms.

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