2020 IL Senate race: on Education


Mark Curran: Need localized approach to education and parental choice

Ensure a more localized approach to our education system. Give parents the ability to choose where they want to send their child to school, regardless of their income level or zip code.
Source: ScienceDebate.org on 2020 Illinois Senate race Nov 3, 2020

Mark Curran: Need localized approach to education and parental choice

Ensure a more localized approach to our education system. Give parents the ability to choose where they want to send their child to school, regardless of their income level or zip code.
Source: ScienceDebate.org on 2020 Illinois Senate race Nov 3, 2020

Richard Durbin: Create refundable tax credit for teachers in Title I schools

We were incentivizing experienced educators to work in affluent schools. The impact on students in Black and Brown neighborhoods is drastic. We can address these disparities by incentivizing teachers to make careers in areas with the most need. My bill, the Retaining Educators Takes Added Investment Now Act, would create a fully refundable tax credit for teachers in Title I schools and educators in early childhood education programs.
Source: ScienceDebate.org on 2020 Illinois Senate race Nov 3, 2020

Mark Curran: There is no student loan crisis: against "free college"

Q: What should Congress do to address the student loan crisis? Would you use the word "crisis"?

CURRAN: I could cite many examples as to why the Illinois Universities are known for waste and unreasonably high salaries and pensions. I am not a proponent of "free college." Peoples choices have consequences and there is a reason why people come from all over the globe to go to college here. There is no crisis.

Source: Chicago Sun Times on 2020 Illinois Senate race Jan 22, 2020

Anne Stava-Murray: Shift cost of education away from property tax

Property taxes in Illinois are absurdly high. To fix property taxes, we need to fix the largest driver of cost within property taxes: public education funding. Anyone who talks about property taxes in isolation misses the larger point of how broken our state's system of education funding has been. The cost burden for public education has been taken on at the local level for far too long.
Source: Chicago Daily Herald on 2020 Illinois Senate race Oct 22, 2018

Anne Stava-Murray: Decades of disinvestment have hurt Illinois state schools

Q: From 2000 to 2016, the number of Illinois residents who enrolled as college freshmen outside the state increased by 73% (20,507 to 35,445). Why are so many more Illinois residents going to college elsewhere? What should be done to encourage more of them to go to school here?

Stava-Murray: High cost and an uncertainty about the commitment of the state to improving the dire situation many state universities have been put into by decades of disinvestment and highly public impacts by the recent budget impasse hurt IL state schools when college bound students are determining (often with the input of their parents) where to go. Several initiatives to make IL state schools more competitive were just signed into law, including but not limited to scholarships and funding.

Source: Chicago Sun-Times on 2020 Illinois Senatorial race Oct 22, 2018

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Candidates and political leaders on Education:

Democrats running for President:
Sen.Michael Bennet (D-CO)
V.P.Joe Biden (D-DE)
Mayor Mike Bloomberg (I-NYC)
Gov.Steve Bullock (D-MT)
Mayor Pete Buttigieg (D-IN)
Sen.Cory Booker (D-NJ)
Secy.Julian Castro (D-TX)
Rep.John Delaney (D-MD)
Rep.Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI)
Sen.Amy Klobuchar (D-MN)
Mayor Wayne Messam (D-FL)
Gov.Deval Patrick (D-MA)
Sen.Bernie Sanders (I-VT)
CEO Tom Steyer (D-CA)
Sen.Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)
Marianne Williamson (D-CA)
CEO Andrew Yang (D-NY)

2020 Third Party Candidates:
Rep.Justin Amash (L-MI)
CEO Don Blankenship (C-WV)
Gov.Lincoln Chafee (L-RI)
Howie Hawkins (G-NY)
Gov.Gary Johnson(L-NM)
Howard Schultz(I-WA)
Gov.Jesse Ventura (I-MN) 		Republicans running for President:
Sen.Ted Cruz(R-TX)
Gov.Larry Hogan (R-MD)
Gov.John Kasich(R-OH)
V.P.Mike Pence(R-IN)
Gov.Mark Sanford (R-SC)
Pres.Donald Trump(R-NY)
Rep.Joe Walsh (R-IL)
Gov.Bill Weld(R-MA & L-NY)

2020 Withdrawn Democratic Candidates:
Sen.Stacey Abrams (D-GA)
Mayor Bill de Blasio (D-NYC)
Sen.Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY)
Sen.Mike Gravel (D-AK)
Sen.Kamala Harris (D-CA)
Gov.John Hickenlooper (D-CO)
Gov.Jay Inslee (D-WA)
Rep.Seth Moulton (D-MA)
Rep.Beto O`Rourke (D-TX)
Rep.Tim Ryan (D-CA)
Adm.Joe Sestak (D-PA)
Rep.Eric Swalwell (D-CA)
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