Think Act Lead encourages elected officials and candidates to pledge themselves to these reforms as part of a "Voter's Bill of Rights on Education!"
To address the shortage of quality teachers, a forgiveness plan for teachers should be adopted. Those deciding on a career as teachers will not have to repay their college loans.
We need a National Educators Trust (NET) to put more teachers in the classroom by providing federal NET grants for teacher-training programs, supplementing teacher salaries, and offering incentives for critical shortage areas.
We should create a Teacher Corps, a two-year program that will place youth in schools as aides, mentors, counselors, and support personnel who will earn money toward college and valuable career experience.
I favor the development of a SMART Trust (School Modernization And Resource Technology) which will provide grants to deserving schools for construction and modernization.
We should establish a Lifelong Learning Tax Credit to defer the cost of continuing one’s education.
A way to offset the skyrocketing cost of a college education is to increase the amount of the College Tuition Tax Credit.
I favor reforming the student loan process to save the system money, and use the savings for additional student loans.
We must create more student work-study programs and increasing both the amount and size of student loans.
I oppose nationally-standardized tests.
I oppose school vouchers because they takes money away from public schools who need funds and end up subsidizing the tuition of private schools.
