Issue Position: Education

Issue Position

-Has made improving schools and colleges a top priority in Congress.

-Supported successful student aid reform, which reduced student loan interest rates by cutting wasteful subsidies to banks and lending directly to students and parents.

-Increased the number and size of Pell Grant scholarships.

-Wrote the Price Education Affordability Act, which gives parents and students a tax break on their education loans.

-Helped pass a law to help recruit top quality teachers, partly modeled on North Carolina's successful Teaching Fellows Program.

-Authored the Advanced Technical Education Act, which strengthens high-tech worker training through community and technical colleges.

-Supports common-sense changes in the No Child Left Behind law to improve teacher quality and student performance.

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