The candidate's views on education
Education is an important part of a person’s life; It is what helps them learn how to read, write, and do math (both basic and advanced). Without it, people would struggle finding a job that pays well, and sustaining life and meaningful or important conversations. Although each candidate running in this year’s election believes it’s important, they have different views on how to improve it.
Donald Trump’s View
Donald Trump, the nominee for the Republican Party, for example, is focusing more on the financial portion of education. According to his website, Trump Pence, he wants to “immediately add an additional federal investment of $20 billion towards school choice. This will be done by reprioritizing existing federal dollars.” School choice is a wide array of programs offering students and their families alternatives to publicly provided schools.
Later, on the “Positions” page of his website he claims to “give states the option to allow these funds to follow the student to the public or private school they attend. Distribution of this grant will favor states that have private school choice, magnet schools and charter laws, encouraging them to participate.”
In addition, he claims that, if states help with the fund raising, then there should still be enough money to also provide funds for in all grades who are currently living in poverty. He also plans to “work with Congress on reforms to ensure universities are making a good faith effort to reduce the cost of college and student debt in exchange for the federal tax breaks and tax dollars.”
Furthermore, Trump wants to “ensure that the opportunity to attend a two or four-year college, or to pursue a trade or a skill set through vocational and technical education, will be easier to access, pay for, and finish.”
Hillary Clinton’s View
Instead of focusing on the financial part of education and education as a whole like Trump, on her website, Hillary Clinton.com, Hillary Clinton divide the issue on education into two separate issues.
When it comes to early childhood education, however, Clinton wants to “make preschool universal for every 4-year old in America.” She also wants to “significantly increase child care investments so that no family in America has to pay more than 10 percent of its income to afford high-quality child care.” In addition, she plans to “improve the quality of childcare and early learning by giving a raise to America’s child care workforce.”
Furthermore, she wants to “double our investment in Early Head Start and the Early Head Start–Child Care Partnership program.”
Additionally, Hillary Clinton also wants to “expand access to evidence-based home visiting programs” because of the importance of early childhood development.
Not to mention, Clinton wants to “award scholarships of up to $1,500 per year to help as many as 1 million student parents afford high-quality child care.” Likewise, she intends to “increase access to high-quality child care on college campuses by serving an additional 250,000 children.”
Gary Johnson’s View
Unlike Clinton and Trump, Gary Johnson centers his beliefs around the state and local governments’ role when it comes to education. According to his website, Johnson Weld 2016, Johnson “worked tirelessly as governor to have a more substantive discussion about the best way to provide a good education for our children.” Apparently, while working with the mostly Democratic legislature of New Mexico, he “advocated a universally available program for school choice.”
Also, Gary Johnson “believes that state and local governments should have more control over education policy.” In addition, Johnson believes that “decisions that affect our children should be made closer to home, not by bureaucrats and politicians in Washington, D.C.” Which, according to Johnson, “is why he believes we should eliminate the federal Department of Education.”
Furthermore, Johnson thinks that “common core and other attempts to impose national standards and requirements on local schools are costly, overly bureaucratic, and actually compromise our ability to provide our children with a good education.”
Jill Stein’s View
On the other hand, Jill Stein believes that education is a right instead of a privilege. According to her website, Jill 2016, she believes that America should “abolish student debt to free a generation of Americans from debt servitude.” In addition, she wants to “guarantee tuition-free, world-class public education from preschool through university.” Furthermore, she wants to “end high stakes testing and public school privatization.”
For more information about each candidate’s view on the issue of education visit their websites at Donald Trump.com, Hillary Clinton.com, Johnson Weld.com, and Jill 2016.com and vote for the candidate that should be the president.
