Issue Position: Pro-Education

Issue Position

Our teachers need to be compensated adequately. I think we need to treat them like professionals and we should also expect professional results. If we want professional results, we have to have high-class educational standards. Treating them like professionals means putting them in charge of their classroom and letting them determine the best way to meet the standards.

I helped end West Virginia's participation in the Common Core Consortium and put and end to the Common Core aligned SBAC testing in WV precisely because it trampled on a teacher's freedom to determine the best way to reach and teach the individual child. When all is said and done, teachers don't teach classrooms, they teach kids and they need the freedom to reach each child in the best way possible.

With that freedom and with better standards, we also need to recognize and reward teachers that are achieving the best results.

We need to return control of our schools to our County Boards of Education, our current top-down, Cuba Style, education system is not serving the needs of West Virginia's children. Local control is the best and most effective

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