PRIORITIES
Education &
The Trades
Education is supposed to be the engine of American mobility. Right now the engine is being dismantled. The Department of Education is on the chopping block, public school dollars are being routed to private schools through a new federal voucher program, and the country is running out of skilled tradespeople — for every five who retire from the trades, only two are coming in to replace them. National average per-pupil spending is around $17,600. Mississippi spends about $12,300, among the five lowest in the nation. The kid in Meridian doesn’t get a vote on that. I do.
I WILL:
- Defend the Department of Education
- Fully fund IDEA
- Defend and expand Title I
- Defend Virginia’s pre-K investment
- Fully fund rural schools through REAP
- Make a major federal investment in apprenticeships and the trades
- Repeal the federal voucher program before a single public dollar flows through it
- Refuse corporate PAC money from the for-profit education industry, predatory student-loan servicers, and ed-tech firms whose business model depends on extracting federal subsidies
MORE PRIORITIES
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Education is supposed to be the engine of American mobility. Right now the engine is being dismantled.
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