Issue Position: Education

Issue Position

Improving Education

Michael Lee believes that we need a new vision for education in North Carolina -- one that is decentralized, entrepreneurial and flexible. This will allow the teachers and managers of our public schools to have broader discretion in the way they educate our children. North Carolina has some of the best teachers in the world. Michael believes we need to let them teach and adequately compensate them for it. North Carolina must make sure it is competitive with base pay, health insurance and retirement benefits (total compensation package). Our system of education needs to create a real marketplace for education where funding follows students and is not simply deposited into schools. There are many states that are moving in this direction and North Carolina needs to be one of them in order to fulfill our responsibilities to our children, our community, and future generations.

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