Adam Edelen on Education

Support teachers with pensions and more in classroom

He added that politicians should be doing more than protecting teachers' pensions. Edelen said he hopes modernizing the economy and rewriting the tax code will help provide the necessary revenue to pay for Kentucky's financially-ailing public pension systems.

"Folks, protecting pensions isn't the best we can do; it's the least we can do," Edelen said. "Merely protecting pensions doesn't change the fact that every teacher I know buys materials for their kids out of their pockets."

Don't make schools profit centers for charter corporations

We need a new approach to public education by embracing evidence-based strategies, new technologies, and a commitment to leaving failed ideas behind.
• Universal Pre-K Make sure students have the tools and baseline skills necessary to achieve and excel.
• Respecting Kentucky TeachersTreat Kentucky teachers like the professionals they are. Our teachers have been insulted and scapegoated.
• Funding Education, not Bureaucracy Ensure that state dollars make their way to the classrooms where they belong, not burnt up in administrative bureaucracy.

Make college affordable to the children of working families

Kentucky's students are being left behind--and Frankfort is making it worse.
• Affordable Higher Education A child with the ability to attend college and put their skills to work for Kentucky should not be turned away by cost of a higher education. The leaders of tomorrow in Kentucky need an affordable education that allows them to build a life unsaddled by decades of student loan debt. Making college affordable to the children of working families will be a day-one priority for Adam Edelen's administration.
• Real Opportunity for Students To empower students to meet the demands of a rapidly evolving economy, Adam Edelen will work with schools, community colleges, four-year universities, and private industry to provide students with college credit classes, clear pathways to a degree, or the skills education that will make them career ready for our rapidly changing 21st century.

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