2022 AL Governor's race: on Education


Lynda Blanchard: Choice move to good school or pay for private not right

Schools were an issue that a number of members of the audience brought up. Blanchard said that her children are currently in public school, but that they moved to a good school system. They have also done private school."It is not right," Blanchard said. "People in Alabama are given the choice to either move into a neighborhood with a good school system or pay for private school. Not everyone can afford that."
Source: AL Political Reporter on 2022 Alabama Gubernatorial race May 12, 2021

Tim James: Supports school choice including funding for church schools

We support options for learning, including: public education, parochial and private schools, charter schools, home-schooling, magnet schools and technical and vocational education. We recognize and support parental rights in their child's education.

Our children's education is a sacred stewardship under the authority of their parents. For this reason, a Tim James Administration will support school choice where the family can utilize the funding allocated for each child enabling the student to attend the public, charter, private, church or homeschooling program of their choice.

Source: 2022 Alabama Governor campaign website TimJamesGovernor.com Feb 24, 2022

Tim James: Permanently ban the teaching of Critical Race Theory

We will spearhead legislation to permanently ban the teaching of critical race theory as a legitimate worldview in our K-12 schools.
Source: 2022 Alabama Governor campaign website TimJamesGovernor.com Feb 24, 2022

Yolanda Flowers: Funding for public schools is crucial, use money lottery

Yolanda is proposing the Lottery to fund our schools. Money from the lottery will fund better built schools with clean, filtered water, cleaner air system, and two nutritious meals. Funding for public schools is crucial and will be greatly increased by funds from the lottery. More funding will also help to increase teacher pay. Increased teacher pay will attract more teachers to the profession. Every student, upon entering school, is to be given a psychological evaluation to site any learning disabilities by the age of five. This will help the teacher, along with the psychologist, to better design a curriculum for the students and develop an Individualized Education Plan (IEP). This plan will follow the child to ensure they are successful through their education program.
Source: 2022 Alabama Gubernatorial website YolandaForGovernor.org Jul 19, 2022

Yolanda Flowers: Schools must be desegregated & become more diverse

Schools must also be desegregated. The bias on our public school systems can still be felt today, and Yolanda will ensure that schools become more diverse.
Source: 2022 Alabama Gubernatorial website YolandaForGovernor.org Jul 19, 2022

Yolanda Flowers: Supports school choice if parents feel child learns better

1819 News asked Flowers if she supported school choice. "If the parent feels that the child learns better at the school then yes," Flowers said. "I hate to say that." Flowers said that she would like for everyone to get a quality education at every school and that there are no "failing schools" but achieving that is going to take some time.
Source: 1819 News on 2022 Alabama Gubernatorial race Jan 31, 2022

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Candidates and political leaders on Education:

Retired Senate as of Jan. 2015:
GA:Chambliss(R)
IA:Harkin(D)
MI:Levin(D)
MT:Baucus(D)
NE:Johanns(R)
OK:Coburn(R)
SD:Johnson(D)
WV:Rockefeller(D)

Resigned from 113th House:
AL-1:Jo Bonner(R)
FL-19:Trey Radel(R)
LA-5:Rod Alexander(R)
MA-5:Ed Markey(D)
MO-9:Jo Ann Emerson(R)
NC-12:Melvin Watt(D)
SC-1:Tim Scott(R) 		Retired House to run for Senate or Governor:
AR-4:Tom Cotton(R)
GA-1:Jack Kingston(R)
GA-10:Paul Broun(R)
GA-11:Phil Gingrey(R)
HI-1:Colleen Hanabusa(D)
IA-1:Bruce Braley(D)
LA-6:Bill Cassidy(R)
ME-2:Mike Michaud(D)
MI-14:Gary Peters(D)
MT-0:Steve Daines(R)
OK-5:James Lankford(R)
PA-13:Allyson Schwartz(D)
TX-36:Steve Stockman(R)
WV-2:Shelley Capito(R) 		Retired House as of Jan. 2015:
AL-6:Spencer Bachus(R)
AR-2:Tim Griffin(R)
CA-11:George Miller(D)
CA-25:Howard McKeon(R)
CA-33:Henry Waxman(D)
CA-45:John Campbell(R)
IA-3:Tom Latham(R)
MN-6:Michele Bachmann(R)
NC-6:Howard Coble(R)
NC-7:Mike McIntyre(D)
NJ-3:Jon Runyan(R)
NY-4:Carolyn McCarthy(D)
NY-21:Bill Owens(D)
PA-6:Jim Gerlach(R)
UT-4:Jim Matheson(D)
VA-8:Jim Moran(D)
VA-10:Frank Wolf(R)
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