Marco Rubio in EduWatch 2015

On Education: No national school board; end Department of Education

• The Department of Education: "If I was president of the United States, I would not have a Department of Education, perhaps at all....We don't need a national school board."
• Common Core (2015): "I don't care what anybody tells you. Those standards will eventually be used to force on states policies the federal government wants."
• Common Core (2013): "Common Core started out as a well-intentioned effort to develop more rigorous curriculum standards. However, it is increasingly being used by the Obama administration to turn the Department of Education into what is effectively a national school board. This effort to coerce states into adhering to national curriculum standards is not the best way to help our children attain the best education. Empowering parents, local communities, and the individual states is the best approach."
  Source: Fordham Institute EduWatch 2016 by Brandon White Apr 27, 2015

  On Education: Empower parents to overcome disastrous public system

  The public school system for millions of disadvantaged American children is a disaster. Many of these schools deny opportunity to those who need it most. We need to allow charter schools and other innovative schools to flourish. The key to that is empowering parents. Parents should be the ultimate decision makers on where their children go to school. But poor and working class parents often have no choice about what schools their children can attend. All our parents should be able to send their children to the school of their choice. For parents with special needs children, the freedom to choose their kids' school is especially important. (December 2012) Source: Fordham Institute EduWatch 2016 by Brandon White Apr 27, 2015

  On Education: Theistic evolution: science and faith are not incompatible

  On teaching creationism and evolution: "If you want to give them a truly rounded education, you should explain to them that there's a theistic creationism that exists, a theistic evolution that exists out there. The Catholic Church has adopted that position. It teaches that science and faith are not incompatible." April 2014. Source: Fordham Institute EduWatch 2016 by Brandon White Apr 27, 2015

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