Issue Position: Education

Issue Position

A Community is strong when it has strong schools. So much of a person's life and the quality of that life is dependent on the level of education that person achieves. Education must be a priority. We need adequate funding for school construction, expansion of Pre-K, increase the per pupil expenditure to offset inflation and to give our teachers more autonomy to develop teaching methods suitable for all learning styles. We must also understand that the students that compose the school system are increasingly diverse and we must, therefore, implement programs that recognize that diversity and allows all students a fair opportunity to succeed. This will begin to close the problem of the "achievement gap" and other problems our schools are presently experiencing.

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