Education Reform
Key Summary
Priorities of Education Reform
Increasing community skilled based learning projects in primary education schools.
Encouraging and supplementing project-based learning in high schools.
Expanding federal protections for teachers’ unions.
Investing in school infrastructure.
Lowering college payments while ensuring institutions are able to meet their financial obligations.
Subsidizing college tuition costs to lower student loans.
Education is the cornerstone of any society. It is the power source that fuels innovation, curiosity, enlightenment, and industry. Every child in the United States deserves a quality education, and every American deserves an equal shot at professional education. From universities to trade schools, we all deserve the ability to pursue our goals. American education is failing though. Children’s test scores are remaining stagnate, more youth are choosing delinquency rather than enlightenment, Americans are drowning in college debt, more and more graduates are being denied for entry level jobs, and universities are strengthening partisan footholds.
A System in Decline
Barely 31% of fourth graders are able to read at a proficient level
-NAGB
Not one single state improved reading scores for 4th-8th graders from 2022-2024
-NAGB
28% of students are reported as chronically absent as of 2023
-US Dept of Education
41.8% of recent college graduates are underemployed
-Federal Reserve Bank of New York
College debt is over $1.8 trillion between 43 million Americans
-Education Data Initiative
As of 2023, over 33% of students in Colorado are chronically absent
-America’s Health Rankings
What can be done?
Establish universal reading and writing screening for kids in elementary schools.
State provided tutoring to free teacher’s workloads.
Reduce administrative tasks for teachers and improve teacher retention.
Expand youth apprenticeships and project-based learning.
Cap tuition growth on universities receiving subsidies.
Create dual apprenticeships that can count as experience in the field.
Expand CE enrollment and AP courses offered in high schools.
Expand textbook affordability.
Reduce administrative costs in universities and tech schools.
Reform general ed requirements to limit wasteful credits towards degrees.