Education-plank-TheVanguard

==Vanguard PAC: Empowering Parents, Educating Children==
:"I can't presume to know exactly what my uncle would say about the current debate over school vouchers and choice, but I know the principles he taught. . . . [A]ll Americans should want the public schools to be the very best they can be, but we must make it possible for all people to choose the best educational settings for their children, no matter what their circumstances." -- Alveda King, niece of Dr. Martin Luther King
Vanguard PAC plan will create schools that are safe, clean, drug-free, academically challenging and that reinforce rather than undermine the moral and spiritual values parents are trying to teach their children at home. Our plan will also ensure that teachers have the freedom to build such schools, and that more dollars will actually reach the classroom -- without Federal strings attached -- by block-granting Federal education money to the states and eliminating Federal one-size-fits-all centralization.
But more than just seeking to improve the status quo, Vanguard PAC is committed to supporting the full creativity of the marketplace of ideas in education as in everything else. To this end, we strongly back homeschools, private schools, charter schools, vouchers, and any other innovative idea that will help give children a good education and opportunity for a great life.
==Details==
===Power to the Parents===
====Real Choices for Every American Family====
Help for Black Children
Help for Hispanic Children
	
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