Gail Lightfoot in Survey of 2024 Senate campaign websites

On Education: Abolish the federal Department of Education

The current K-12 educational system is fundamentally flawed because it is based on what is essentially a socialist model. But the federal government can at least try to avoid making the problems worse. To that end, here are some steps Congress can take:

Get the federal government out of the business of financing and subsidizing schools at all levels. "Free" money is never free--it just encourages state and local educational bureaucracies to spend money less efficiently.
Subsidizing failure makes it harder for alternative providers who could produce better results to develop and grow.
Abolish the Department of Education. This bureaucracy educates nobody, and just makes it more difficult for meaningful changes to be accomplished at the state or local level.

End all federal sponsorship/endorsement of curricula, standards, and text books. These can be better developed and promulgated by private groups, left free to try different approaches. Source: 2024 Senate campaign website lightfoot.VoteLibertarian.us Feb 2, 2024

On Education: College loans hook students on borrowing, like drug pushers

Get the federal government out of the business of providing or guaranteeing student loans. Through these programs the federal government has, very much in the manner of a drug pusher, gotten both college students and colleges hooked on borrowing that leads to poor choices. Source: 2024 Senate campaign website lightfoot.VoteLibertarian.us Feb 2, 2024

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