Issue Position: Education

Issue Position

Now more than ever before, our educators are being asked to do more with less. Improving America's educational system requires recruiting and retaining the best educators and providing them with the necessary resources to prepare our nation's greatest asset "our children" and prepare them for the future. No Child Left Behind has successfully allowed at risk students the opportunity to seek additional tutoring and transfer to better academically sound schools. Unsuccessfully, it has forced educators to "teach to the test". It has also permitted states to set their own individual standard; as a result this has caused a significant number of educational discrepancies throughout America. Finally, we need to ensure that a college education maintains attainable for middle class families. I will advocate on behalf of these families for increased funding for Pell Grants.

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