Issue Position: Educating Our Children

Issue Position

Our children deserve a solid educational foundation to ensure they are prepared to join the workforce of tomorrow. I have and will continue to deliver the resources necessary for the next generation to succeed. Through mine and my Democratic colleagues' efforts, the state's operating budget increased funding for public universities and K-12 institutions and added millions of dollars to the Ohio College Opportunity Grant to make college more accessible. This effort also increased the base teacher salary from $20,000 to $30,000. Our state wasted $1 billion in taxpayer money on unaccountable charter schools as part of a corrupt pay-to-play scheme. This is unacceptable, and we can't expect the same people who broke the system to fix it. I will continue the fight to restructure the way we fund our public schools and invest in our children's future with a strong universal pre-K.

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