I am a strong supporter of the 100,000 New Teachers Initiative to help local school districts hire additional teadhers in order to reduce class sizes. I am also a co-sponsor of the several school modernization bills. A large number of schools are in serious disrepair or are suffering from extreme overcrowding. We need to do more to help local communities rebuild schools that are falling down. The bills I support would make interest-free bonds available to state and local schools to repair safety problems, build new schools, and connect classrooms to technology.
Education is the key to our future economic competitiveness.
I will continue to work to ensure that investment in education at all levels remains a federal priority. First of all, we have to get the government out of the schools. Let the parents and teachers who know what the problems are at the local levels run our schools. Local communities should have the ultimate control over government-run schools. However, there is an extremely important education issue that has continued to come to Congress and must be stopped before the right-wing extremists pass it.