Top 15 Must Ask Questions for Legislative Candidates

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Top Fifteen Must Ask Questions for Legislative Candidates

  • Do you support a moratorium on school vouchers?
  • Do you support reinstating a cap on charter schools?
  • Do you support local school districts being responsible for authorizing and overseeing charter schools in their district?
  • Does your plan for teacher recruitment and retention include raising teacher pay to the national average?
  • Do you support restoring Master’s pay & teachers’ due process rights?
  • Do you support universal Pre-K so that all children come to school ready for Kindergarten? 
  • Do you support school meals for all students at no cost to families?
  • Do you support raising principal pay and basing it on experience?
  • Do you support restoring class size caps for grades 4 and 5?
  • Do you support providing a statewide construction bond to help pay for the growing backlog of K-12 school construction and needed repairs? 
  • Do you support a more equitable grading system for schools instead of the current A-F school grading scheme?
  • Do you support keeping guns off school grounds and out of classrooms?
  • How will you promote desegregation of our schools?
  • Does your plan to help high poverty schools and students include raising per pupil expenditures to the national average?
  • Do you support providing high speed internet & devices to all students so they have equitable access to online information as part of a high-quality education?

BONUS Question: Do you support using Constitutional Amendments as a way to by-pass the law-making process given to you as an elected legislator? 

FYI: Check to see if your candidate has taken our Education Position Questionnaire!

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