I believe we need more teachers in our classrooms. We need to bring back money to reinstate fine arts and music classes in our schools as well as sufficient funding to provide adequate supplies and text books.
I also believe that we need to teach our students about healthy eating, provide healthy meals for them in our food programs and every school should have student gardens.
We need to have more education in technology such as hands on computer training, coding, website design, internet safety, how to use social media for networking and finding work and how to use and design software. Curriculum should include environmental issues and teach children a holistic approach for caring for the planet.
Middle and high school should include entrepreneurial and wealth creation curricula, including knowledge about credit, saving and investing. Knowing that they can start their own business and having knowledge of the principles of wealth creation will give students a sense of ownership of their future and confidence to take risks and start businesses.
I support the new The Every Student Succeeds Act which replaces the now defunct No Child Left Behind Act. I will do everything I can to make sure that it is implemented in our district in the way it is intended so that every student is on a path to success. The new act gives decision making power to the states to decide what works best for the schools in their state.
I am not opposed to Common Core per se, however I do believe it needs to be more flexible as one size does not fit all.
I am opposed to school vouchers and favor bolstering our current schools with funding to provide much needed improvements in the physical buildings and the programs being offered.
