Improving Access to Quality Education
Our public education system is broken. There was a time when our children received an excellent education in our middle-class towns’ public schools and our affordable public universities. Our Department of Education has lost sight of that achievement and it does not take responsibility for the stark, unequal outcomes we now see in our poorly-funded and immigrant communities.
Early Childhood Education – Pre-K through Kindergarten
- Prioritize investments in Head Start programs for children under the age of four who meet income eligibility thresholds
- Implement and fully fund universal preschool
- Fund access to full-day kindergarten
Elementary and Secondary Education
- Enhance the goals of college and career readiness, including vocational training as an alternative post-secondary career path
- Address the complications of learning in an environment of bullying, cyberbullying, and the anxieties stemming from gun violence that has targeted a generation of school children
- Provide equitable funding to our students with disabilities, our English language learners, and our economically disadvantaged students
- Assure that children do not go hungry at school
Public Higher Education
- Stop the federal government from profiting on loans to students
- Expand Student Aid programs and Pell Grants:
- Cap student loan interest rates at 3%
- Defer payback for up to twelve (12) months upon leaving school
- Prohibit loan accrual on unsubsidized loans during the time an individual is enrolled in school
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