Kris Kobach on Education

End in-state tuition for illegal immigrants

Only 686 illegal immigrants took advantage of the in-state tuition program in 2016, mostly for community college.

No unfunded mandates; yes charters & vouchers

Kobach supports the following principles regarding education.
• Allow parents to use vouchers (equal opportunity scholarships) to send their children to any public school.
• Allow parents to use vouchers (equal opportunity scholarships) to send their children to any private or religious school.
• Allow teachers and professionals to receive authorization and funding to establish charter schools.
• Increase funding for block grants to states to aid in the hiring of additional teachers.
• Support teacher testing and reward teachers with merit pay.
• Support granting states limited control over Head Start programs.
• Increase funding of programs such as Pell grants and Stafford loans to help students pay for college.
• Support federal tax incentives to help families save for college.
• Kobach adds, "I support the removal of unfunded federal mandates in education."

Strongly anti-free college, according to AFA survey.

The AFA inferred whether candidates agree or disagree with the statement, 'Taxpayer-funded public education should be guaranteed through college'? Self-description: (American Family Association helps produce iVoterGuides): `Grounded in God; rooted in research`; they `thoroughly investigate candidates`; when they cannot `evaluate with confidence, they receive an `Insufficient` rating` (& we exclude)