Education
America's education system must be redesigned to benefit from ideas which other productive countries use to successfully educate citizens for the 21st century.
The generally poor preparation of high school graduates drives employers to rely on college degrees as a hiring standard. As a result, too many American students are pressured into attending college simply to compete in the job market. This pushes the cost of higher education up and drags the quality of higher education down.
In Congress I will stand for a general public education system built around a core-knowledge curriculum, with multi-track programs to meet the needs of all students and increase the quality, value, and importance of the high school diploma. I will also work to enable more and better non-college post-secondary education and training programs with nation-wide completion standards to produce the skilled tradespersons and technical workers America needs.