Issue Position: Nevada Withdraws from Federal Education and Common Core

Issue Position

Nevada Withdraws from Federal Education and Common Core. I oppose Common Core federal education standards 100%. Each county in Nevada will regulate its education. Parents, teachers, administration, and school boards at the county level will be free to determine their curriculum and counties will be encouraged to compete with each other to produce the most learned students. Counties need more discretion on what they teach including parent and teach input. We can track what works best based on letting county schools compete on national tests and then see who's the most creative and successful. Centralized control of education is tyranny. The federal government will have no say in Nevada's education system according to the Tenth Amendment. English should be the first and only language of education in America. I have taught in high school and seen English as a Second Language (ESL) education fail first hand. We should not provide education in foreign languages. Rather we teach all students English and then place them in classes AFTER they can speak English.

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