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Issue Position: Strengthen Public Education

Issue Position

Date: Jan. 1, 2016
Issues: Higher Education Government Budget and Spending Education

*Universal Pre-K, early-education, and after school programs.
*Save Our Public Schools -- Keep the Cap on charter schools.
*Less Testing, More Learning.
*Support educators by repealing so-called "district-determined measures" that place an excessive focus on standardized tests and make it more difficult to fill high-need teaching assignments.
*Raise revenue for new programs and update the Ch. 70 funding formula.
*Increased funding for music, the arts, STEAM, and physical education.
*Debt-Free Higher Education.
*Increased state aid for UMass Boston (and our entire system of public higher-education).


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