Issue Position: Education

Issue Position

As a father and as a grandfather, I believe children are the future for not only our state but the world.

Currently, Oregon schools are just not achieving the good grades we should expect. Year after year, our schools rank in the bottom tenth percentile in the basics like reading and math. Year after year, we're told there's never enough money.

The truth is every student deserves an opportunity for the greatest education. The answer isn't more money--it's who spends it and how the money is spent. Just like a good coach molds and motivates his players to win, a good education system gives students the opportunity to learn.

We need to give the control back to the local parents in their communities and those accountable to the students for classroom up education, not administration down. Decisions should be made by those closest to the students who know what is best, not bureaucrats in Salem.

We need to rollback unnecessary regulations, mandates and improve choices and opportunity for students. It takes real leadership to stand up in Salem and to tell the truth: Schools need students, parents and principals to make their own decisions, from classrooms up, not top-heavy administrators, bureaucrats and politicians down.

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