Issue Position: Education

Issue Position

As a PTA President and longtime public school volunteer, I witnessed first-hand the challenges of our classroom teachers. Overburdened with time consuming administrative requirements that add little or no value to the quality of our children's education, our public school teachers deserve and need to be treated as professional educators. In other words, it is time for us to restore the respect the profession is due. Our talented and dedicated teachers must be allowed to use their unique skills and talents to deliver the curriculum to students in innovative and personal ways, which are relevant to today's students and families.

We must give our teachers the tools they need to get our students career ready:

A comprehensive set of core educational standards benchmarked to the world;

High expectations;

Student assessment tools for teachers to develop strategies for learning;

Understandable accountability measures for both teachers and students.

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