Barbara Radnofsky on Education

Expand Upward Bound & Head Start

Effective Learning Environment
• Expand and promote programs such as Upward Bound, Head Start, and child care
• Promote and expand peer mediation in the schools to reduce violence and conflict
• Restore funding for student loans, grants
• Prevent the federal government from taking over curriculum content
• Return control over testing to states and local officials
• Fight efforts to tax families' and children's use of the Internet

Strengthen Pell Grant programs

Effective Learning Environment
• Promote and expand peer mediation in the schools to reduce violence and conflict
• Expand and promote programs such as Upward Bound and Head Start
• Strengthen Pell Grant programs

Improve and fund our public school systems

Vouchers are divisive

Vouchers bankrupt our public educational system