Education
Our education system is in crisis. The previous administration did a bad job tackling our education problems. We were denied impact aid even when federal facilities added significantly to our school enrollment, and unfunded mandates added millions of dollars to our locally funded budgets. No Child Left Behind is a classic example of federal good intentions gone awry. It’s an unfunded mandate from the federal government. It is rigidly applied, takes no account of large immigrant populations for whom English is a challenge and costs local taxpayers millions of their dollars to implement. As a Congressman I will bring the awareness of local impacts to federal legislation and will oppose federal unfunded mandates. We now have an administration in office that is tackling the educational challenges head on. I will work with President Obama in order to make this happen.
