2000 National Political Awareness Test: on Education

Dan Mongiardo: Encourage private investment in public schools

Principles which Mongiardo supports regarding education:
• Increase state funds for professional development of public school teachers and administrators.
• Encourage private or corporate investment in public school programs.
• Increase state funds for school capital improvements (e.g. buildings and infrastructure).
• Increase state funds for hiring additional teachers.

Dan Mongiardo: Post the Ten Commandments in public schools

Principles which Mongiardo supports regarding education:
• Support posting the Ten Commandments in public schools.
• Require public schools to administer high school exit exams.
• Support national standards and testing of public school students.
• Support teacher testing and reward teachers with merit pay.
• Provide state funding to increase teacher salaries.

Andy Martin: Supports vouchers for public, private or religious schools

Martin indicates support of the following principles concerning education (K-12).
• Allow parents to use vouchers (equal opportunity scholarships) to send their children to any publicly-funded school.
• Allow parents to use vouchers (equal opportunity scholarships) to send their children to any participating school: public, private or religious.
• Allow parents to use tax-free savings accounts to send their children to any publicly-funded school.
• Allow parents to use tax-free savings accounts to send their children to any participating school: public, private or religious.
• Support charter schools where teachers and professionals receive authorization and funding to establish new schools.

Corrogan Vaughn: Support affirmative action in public college admissions

Vaughn supports the following principles regarding education:
• Eliminate restrictions on federal education funding, giving educators or local school districts more flexibility to design and implement their programs.
• Support affirmative action in public college admissions.
• Increase funding of programs such as Pell grants and Stafford loans to help students pay for college.
• Support federal tax incentives to help families save for college.

Jon Bruning: Vouchers for public, private, & religious schools

Bruning supports the following principles concerning education:
• Encourage private or corporate investment in public school programs.
• Provide parents with state-funded vouchers to send their children to any participating school (public, private, religious).
• Support charter schools where teachers and professionals receive authorization and funding to establish new schools.
• Support national standards and testing of public school students.

Jon Corzine: Support charter schools

Indicate which principles you support concerning education (K-12).
• Support national standards and testing of public school students.
• Support charter schools where teachers and professionals receive authorization and funding to establish new schools.
• Increase funding for school capital improvements (e.g. buildings and infrastructure).
• Support affirmative action in public college admissions.
• Corzine adds, “Increase funding for additional teachers & reward high performance.”

Joyce Beatty: Adequately fund Ohio public schools

A: My active legislative platform will be:

• Increase healthcare awareness, education and prevention
• Funding may include utilizing Tobacco Dollars for prescription assistance, minority health initiatives and children's healthcare needs.
• Work toward developing adequate educational funding and implementation of reformation of the Fourth Grade Proficiency Test
• Coordinate school curricula with the proficiency test
• Effective ways to assist in adequately funding Ohio public schools may include state funding, tobacco settlement, and possibly tax increases other than property.

Mike Bishop: Supports charter schools; support corporate investment

Bishop indicates support of the following principles regarding education.
• Encourage private or corporate investment in public school programs.
• Support charter schools where teachers and professionals receive authorization and funding to establish new schools.
• Support teacher testing and reward teachers with merit pay.

Mike Bishop: Supports Ten Commandments & voluntary prayer in schools

Bishop indicates support of the following principles regarding education.
• Endorse teacher-led voluntary prayer in public schools.
• Support posting the Ten Commandments in public schools.
• Support teacher testing and reward teachers with merit pay.

Mike Bost: Supports charters, corporate investment, and merit pay

Bost indicates support of the following principles regarding education.
• Increase state funds for professional development of public school teachers and administrators.
• Encourage private or corporate investment in public school programs.
• Support charter schools where teachers and professionals receive authorization and funding to establish new schools.
• Increase state funds for school capital improvements (e.g. buildings and infrastructure).
• Increase state funds for hiring additional teachers.
• Require public schools to administer high school exit exams.
• Support teacher testing and reward teachers with merit pay.
• Provide state funding to increase teacher salaries.

Scott Howell: More funding for teachers & classrooms & charters

Howell indicated support of the following principles on education:
• Support charter schools where teachers and professionals receive authorization and funding to establish new schools.
• Promote education flexibility by giving federal funds, in the form of block grants, to the states to spend it as they see fit.
• Increase funding for block grants to states to help them hire additional teachers.
• Increase funding for computers and computer training in public schools.
• Increase funding for school capital improvements (e.g. buildings and infrastructure).
• Eliminate restrictions on federal education funding, giving educators or local school districts more flexibility to design and implement their programs.

Scott Howell: More resources for teachers, kindergarten, and technology

George Allen: Supports parents choosing schools via vouchers

Allen AGREES with the following statements:
• Allow parents to use tax-free savings accounts to send their children to any publicly-funded school, or any participating school: public, private or religious.
• Support charter schools where teachers and professionals receive authorization and funding to establish new schools.
• Promote education flexibility by giving federal funds, in the form of block grants, to the states to spend it as they see fit.

David McReynolds: More funding for public schools

McReynolds supports the following statements on K-12 education:
• Support national standards and testing of public school students.
• Increase funding for block grants to states to help them hire additional teachers.
• Increase funding to reduce class sizes.
• Increase funding for computers and computer training in public schools.
• Increase funding for school capital improvements (e.g. buildings and infrastructure).

David McReynolds: More tax incentives & more affirmative action for college

McReynolds supports the following statements on higher education:
• Support affirmative action in public college admissions.
• Support federal tax incentives to help families save for college.

David McReynolds: No religious groups on public school property

Alan Keyes: Pro-voucher; gov’t out of K-12 education

Keyes supports the following principles concerning K-12 education:
• Allow parents to use vouchers to send their children to any participating school: public, private or religious.
• Support tax-free savings accounts to send their children to any participating school: public, private or religious.
• Keyes says, “Federal K-12 Education Policy should respect the authority of parents, communities, and the States. The Federal Government should cease funding & regulating K-12 education.”

Harry Browne: Separate school and state

On college: “By ending the income tax most families will have the resources necessary to choose the college they want. Government involvement has increased the cost of higher education.”

On religion in schools: “We should separate school & state so individuals can make the right choices for themselves & their children.”

Howard Phillips: End federal funding of education

Phillips supports the following principles regarding education:
• Eliminate federal student financial aid for individuals convicted of drug offenses.
• Religious expression on public school property should be allowed.
• Phillips says, “All federal funding of education is unconstitutional.”

John Hagelin: Focus education on developing consciousness of students

Hagelin supports the following principles regarding education:
• National standards and testing
• Mandatory teacher testing
• Fund computer training in public schools.
• Hagelin would “promote proven educational approaches shown to develop the consciousness or intelligence of the student, thereby increasing student creativity, moral reasoning, self-reliance, and mental & physical health & well-being, while providing mastery of technical skills necessary to compete in today’s society.”

John Hagelin: Supports vouchers, charter schools, & block grants

Hagelin supports the following principles regarding school choice:
• Allow parents to use vouchers or tax-free savings accounts to send their children to any participating school: public, private or religious.
• Support creation of more charter schools where teachers and professionals receive authorization and funding to establish new schools.
• Give all federal education funding to states in the form of block grants and allow the states to spend it as they see fit.

Orrin Hatch: More block grants; more student loans; school prayer OK

Hatch supports the following principles regarding education:
• Increase funding for block grants to states to help them hire additional teachers.
• Increase funding of programs such as Pell grants and Stafford loans to help students pay for college.
• Support federal tax incentives to help families save for college.
• Religious expression on public school property should be allowed.

Orrin Hatch: More vouchers; more charter schools

Hatch supports the following principles regarding school choice:
• Allow parents to use vouchers to send their children to any participating school: public, private or religious.
• Allow parents to use tax-free savings accounts to send their children to any participating school: public, private or religious.
• Support creation of more charter schools where teachers and professionals receive authorization and funding to establish new schools.

Steve Forbes: Supports teacher testing and merit pay

Forbes supports the following principles regarding education:
• Give all federal education funding to states in the form of block grants and allow the states to spend it as they see fit
• Support voluntary and/or mandatory teacher testing & reward teachers with merit pay
• Eliminate restrictions on federal education funding, giving educators or local school districts more flexibility to design & implement their programs
• Support federal tax incentives to help families save for college.

Steve Forbes: More charters; vouchers at private & parochial schools

Forbes supports the following principles regarding school choice:
• Allow parents to use vouchers (equal opportunity scholarships) to send their children to any participating school: public, private or religious.
• Allow parents to use tax-free savings accounts to send their children to any participating school: public, private or religious.
• Support creation of more charter schools where teachers and professionals receive authorization and funding to establish new schools.

Lincoln Chafee: Supports vouchers & charters, plus more public funding

Supports the following principles concerning education:
• Support national standards and testing of public school students.
• Allow parents to use vouchers (equal opportunity scholarships) to send their children to any publicly-funded school.
• Allow parents to use tax-free savings accounts to send their children to any publicly-funded school.
• Support charter schools where teachers and professionals receive authorization and funding to establish new schools.
• Support teacher testing and reward teachers with merit pay.
• Increase funding for school capital improvements (e.g. buildings and infrastructure).
• Support affirmative action in public college admissions.
• Increase funding of programs such as Pell grants and Stafford loans to help students pay for college.
• Support federal tax incentives to help families save for college.