I will improve teacher quality and treat teachers like professionals. While some want to pass new protections for gun manufacturers to shield them from lawsuits, I will work to get guns off the streets, out of the schools and away from children and criminals. We must also expand community policing with more cops walking the beat. And families deserve refuge from a culture of violence and mayhem. I will work to give parents the ability to protect their children from the marketing of cruelty and degradation.
Parents also deserve help balancing work and family.
I want to bring after-school programs to every community in America. And no parent should have to risk losing a job to go to a parent-teacher conference at school or to drive a child or an aging parent to the doctor. And I will expand the Family and Medical Leave Act to make sure that we do just that. Families deserve affordable health care, with good long-term care for their loved ones. Kids need their grandparents.