Issue Position: Education

Issue Position

As a fiscally conservative public school board member for 15 years I played a major role when the Glencoe Silver Lake school board and administration turned a $750,000 debt into more than a $4.5 million surplus without a major tax increase. This has kept school property taxes at a very low rate for families, businesses, and farms, while still providing a strong academic program. The same economic principles that turned our school budget around can be applied to the projected budget shortfall of $5 to $7 billion in our state's budget. As your state representative:

* I will continue to support strong academic programs in our public schools in a fiscally responsible way.
* I will work to close the gap in educational funding for rural schools.
* Because I believe that parents are the primary educators of their children, I support public, charter, private, and home schools.

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