Education

Education is a subject I hold near and dear to my heart. Through their college years, each child from birth should have the same access to an excellent education unbiased and free from indoctrination or a standardized test.  Here's my plan:

1. Make Primary education (i.e., Pre-school, Elementary, Middle School, and Secondary school) a top priority. I will introduce legislation that will make it where a teacher can get back to teaching. They will once again teach all the subjects. I will make sure that a teacher is paid to teach our children and not paid to teach for a standardized test. Standardized testing should be OUTLAWED!! Children should be the top priority, not a test. 
2. Pre-K has helped many children get ahead in life and start on the right track. Therefore I will help get the funding needed to make sure our children will be set up to succeed in school and further in life. Programs such as Head Start would be funded for all kids, not just kids in low-income areas. When we allow a child's mind to grow and blossom into one of the great minds of the future.  
3. Make college education affordable with a plan for students to pay off their student loans at a cost they can afford. I would introduce legislation that would take the old way of figuring out repayments and making a new system focusing on budgeting and saving money.    With that system in place, the loan system would then work with the student to find a payment they could afford in their budget over ten years.  In simple terms, if a student's budget only allowed for $100 a month to be paid at the start, then that is the amount the plan would start at.  Each year, the plan would be evaluated with the student inputting their current bills; a new payment plan would be instituted for the next year.  The payments would start one calendar year from the time of graduation or leaving school. Once ten years are up, then any amount after that is automatically forgiven. Teaching money skills to a college student is not just for school but for life.  
4. I would introduce legislation that states that if an employer is sponsoring a student to go to school, the employer would be able to help pay the tuition cost up to half of the student's loan debt.   If the employer chooses to help the student, I would make this tax free for both the student and the employer and not be counted as taxable income.   
5. Children are our future, and if we lead by example, we can teach them the skills that they need.