Issue Position: Education

Issue Position

Issue Position: Education

Education is critical to individual survival and civilized human values, but U.S. capitalism is dismantling public education. Inadequate and unequal funding of schools perpetuates racism, crime and inequality. We demand:

* Integrated, democratically-run schools with up-to-date plant and equipment and smaller classes.
* Teach the history of workers' struggles and labor's creation of society's wealth and progress.
* Multi-lingual and multi-cultural education at all levels.
* A federal law requiring and funding equal average per-pupil expenditures by every public school district, with extra funds for students with special needs such as disability or economic deprivation.
* Tuition-free higher education available to all.
* Restore cutbacks in public education and public library services.
* No school voucher schemes.

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