Issue Position: Invest in Public Education - from Pre-K through Community College

Issue Position

Let's invest in Pre-K initiatives through Community College and give our children the right start and every student the opportunity to compete with the rest of society and the world. We should expand Community College and vocational training so that folks can work in career fields that will help them earn a decent living.

We should never use mediocrity to describe our Education system. Aspiring to be average is not a commitment to our children. The current stewardship of our public-school system is reprehensible. North Carolina was 43rd in per-student expenditures in 2017 and that's down from 42nd in 2016. The conversation about teacher pay must be about: "What does it take to recruit and retain the best and brightest to teach and make our public schools among the best in the world?" We must put our money where our mouth is when it comes to delivering on our State Constitution's promise to "guard and maintain" the right to "sound, formal basic education."

Fund our schools and educators. Give them what they need to be successful - period.

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