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Green Party on Education

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Free college tuition for qualified students; abolish loans

Provide free college tuition to all qualified students at public universities and vocational schools. Abolish all student and parent loans taken out to finance post-secondary and vocational education.

Eliminate police officers from our schools. Ensure school security personnel are trained for, and held accountable to, conflict resolution techniques and anti-bias training. Security personnel should demonstrate cultural competency and refrain from enforcing white supremacist oppressive tactics.

Source: Green Party Platform at 2020 Green National Convention , Jul 9, 2020

Increased funding for the arts as essential

Eliminating all laws that seek to restrict or censor artistic expression, including the withholding of government funds for political or moral content. Increased funding for the arts appropriate to their essential social role at local, state and federal levels of government. Education programs in the community that will energize the creativity of every community member from the youngest to the oldest,
Source: Green Party Platform at 2020 Green National Convention , Jul 9, 2020

Replace No Child Left Behind with professional teachers

Source: Green Party Platform adopted by National Committee Jul. 2014 , Jul 31, 2014

Negative income tax for guaranteed basic income

We call for a universal basic income (sometimes called a guaranteed income, negative income tax, or citizen dividend). This would go to every adult regardless of health, employment, or marital status, in order to minimize government bureaucracy and intrusiveness into people's lives. The amount should be sufficient so that anyone who is unemployed can afford basic food and shelter. State or local governments should supplement that amount from local revenues where the cost of living is high.
Source: Green Party Platform adopted by National Committee Jul. 2014 , Jul 31, 2014

Oppose corporate funding & privatization of education

The Green Party is strongly opposed to the dissolution of public schools and the privatization of education. We believe that the best educational experience is guaranteed by the democratic empowerment of organized students, their parents and communities along with organized teachers.

Greens believe in education, not indoctrination. We do not think that schools should turn our children into servile students, employees, consumers or citizens. We believe it is very important to teach our children how to ask good questions.

We also call attention to the results of a quarter century of corporate funding and a decade of No Child Left Behind--a vast, well-endowed and lucrative sector which seeks to dismantle, privatize, or militarize public education and destroy teachers unions. The bipartisan corporate consensus recommends school closings, dissolution of entire school districts and replacement by unaccountable, profit-based charter schools.

Source: Green Party Platform adopted, July 12-15 2012 in Baltimore , Jul 15, 2012

Forgive college loans for grads in public service

The Green Party supports equal access to high-quality education, and sharp increases in financial aid for college students.
Source: Green Party Platform adopted, July 12-15 2012 in Baltimore , Jul 15, 2012

End school vouchers

We call for ending school vouchers.
Source: 2008 Green Party Platform from 2008 Chicago Convention , Jul 13, 2008

Support choice within public schools